Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 July 2023
239. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport to ensure the Navan to Dublin rail line is included in the National Development Plan 2030 as part of the mid-term review that will take place in 2025. [36506/23]
View answerThe issue of a rail connection to Navan has been re-examined as part of the National Transport Authority’s (NTA) review of the Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Area (GDA). The Strategy is a multi-modal, twenty year transport strategy for the region and one that must be reflected in relevant land-use strategies across the GDA.
A Navan rail link is included in the recently published GDA Transport Strategy. As it stands, the Strategy proposes delivery of the Navan rail line in the medium term from 2031-2036. A project of this scale will require significant planning and design before construction can commence. It is expected that this pre-construction work will commence in the second half of this decade, for which there is funding allocated under the National Development Plan funding envelope out to 2030.
