Written answers
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Trans European Transport Network Programme
Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cross-Border corridors he is lobbying to have included on the Trans-European Transport Networks, TEN-T, comprehensive network; the cross-Border planning in which he has engaged with his counterpart in the Six Counties to secure maximum funding from TEN-T; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51158/13]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The TEN-T network has been agreed between Member States, the European Commission and the European Parliament. The Comprehensive network under TEN-T on both sides of the border includes road and rail links as well as ports and airports including the cross border M2N2/A4 Dublin Derry road, N16/A4 Sligo to Northern Ireland road and N13/N14 Donegal to Derry road.The regulation provides for defined corridors in the Core Network which is a subset of the Comprehensive Network. In Ireland's case the corridor includes the A1/M1 Belfast - Dublin road link, the rail link from Dublin to Belfast, Dublin Airport, and Belfast and Greater Dublin area Ports.My Department has liaised with both the Department for Regional Development and the UK Department for Transport with regard to both the Core and Comprehensive Networks and this liaison is ongoing.
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