Minister insists Dublin-Navan rail line will go ahead

TRANSPORT Minister Noel Dempsey has continued to insist the second phase of the Dublin-Navan rail service will go ahead, even though there is no specific reference to the project in the Government’s revised capital spending programme.

However, Mr Dempsey accepted any successor to his office might decide not to proceed with plans to complete the line from the new M3 Parkway station to Navan.

“If other people don’t want to follow on, on that commitment if they get the opportunity, that will be their responsibility,” remarked Mr Dempsey.