Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 245: To ask the Minister for Transport the new train stations planned on the Maynooth commuter line and on the proposed Clonsilla-Navan line; and the date these stations will be completed. [34832/06]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The location of stations on the rail network is a matter for Iarnród Éireann. I am advised by the Company that work is currently under way on a new station between Castleknock and Ashtown to serve the new Phoenix Park development. The new station at Docklands is expected to open next year.

The old Navan rail line will be re-opened in two phases with the first phase running off the Maynooth line, at Clonsilla, to the M3 interchange at Pace, near Dunboyne. I understand from Iarnród Éireann that three new stations are planned on this section — Hansfield, Dunboyne and Pace. The current position regarding this phase is that detailed design work is under way and Iarnród Éireann expects to submit a Railway Order application in mid 2007 for statutory approval to enable the railway upgrade works to proceed with a view to completion of phase 1 in 2009 as provided for in Transport 21.