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If it is his intention to increase the number of public transport projects which are due to be developed under Transport 21

Date: 28 June 2007

Dáil Question No: 35 *To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine if it is his intention to increase the number of public transport projects which are due to be developed under Transport 21 - Pat Breen. (Nominated by: Olivia Mitchell).

 

                                  Answered by the Minister for Transport
                                               (Noel Dempsey) 

The Government Programme refers to studies of a number of additional public transport projects as follows:

· extending Luas to Rathfarnham subject to a feasibility study,

· examining the feasibility of reopening the railway line from Claremorris to Sligo,

· conducting feasibility studies to be completed within two years into Luas-style light rail transit systems in Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford,

· exploring the use of high speed trains on the Cork-Dublin route

· further development of the Dublin-Belfast rail route.

It also commits the Government to continue to review our transport needs and where agreed to proceed with new projects. That ongoing review will take account of the findings of the various studies referred to in the programme.