UPDATE – 19th August 2024
Public consultation on information submitted during the MetroLink Oral Hearing
An oral hearing was held before An Bord Pleanála (the Board) from 19 February 2024 – 28 March 2024 into the application of National Roads Authority (operating as TII) for a Railway Order (RO) for the MetroLink project (the Oral Hearing).
Over the course of the Oral Hearing, additional information was presented by TII to the Board. This included information in response to queries from both the public and the Inspectors. Furthermore, pursuant to a Request for Further Information issued by the Board, TII submitted on 12 June 2024 an updated Book of Reference to the plan indicating the identity of the owners and occupiers of the lands described in the plan. All of the above additional documentation is collectively called the Further Information.
In order to ensure that the public has a sufficient opportunity to review, consider and comment on the Further Information, the Board has directed that TII provide for a secondary public consultation period. All of the Further Information is available to view online at the “Oral Hearing Documents for Second Round of Public Consultation” section below. Specific documents converted to accessible screen readable formats can be accessed via the link below:
Link to Accessible Documents
A hard copy of the Further Information will be available for inspection at the following locations from 19 August 2024 to 8 October 2024:
- An Bord Pleanála offices at 64 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1, D01 V902;
- Dublin City Council offices at Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8, D08 RF3F;
- Fingal County Council offices at County Hall, Main Street, Swords, County Dublin, K67 X8Y2;
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) offices at Parkgate Business Centre, Parkgate Street, Dublin 8, D08 DK10;
- National Transport Authority (NTA) offices at Dún Scéine, Harcourt Lane, Dublin 2, D02 WT20 (9.15am – 4pm Monday to Friday)
- Ballymun Library, Ballymun Road, Dublin 11, D11 DCR7
TII now invites submissions or observations on the Further Information from members of the public, affected landowners and designated bodies. Submissions can be made from 19 August 2024 to 8 October 2024, in writing to An Bord Pleanála.
A €50 fee is payable by any member of the public who has not made a valid submission previously (and this can be made in writing to the Board or online on the Board’s website at https://www.pleanala.ie/en-ie/observations).
No fee is payable by anyone who is an affected landowner (i.e. a landowner who has a property interest that is included in the Book of Reference), a designated body, or any member of the public who has already made a valid submission on the case (those submissions can be sent in writing by post/hand delivered or emailed to laps@pleanala.ie).
A copy of the newspaper notices published in newspapers circulating along the MetroLink Route are available here;
Newspaper Notice 8th August 2024
Newspaper Notice 9th August 2024
UPDATE
Notice of Further Information (omitted document) and Notice of Extension to the Consultation Period in relation to application for the Railway (MetroLink – Estuary to Charlemont via Dublin Airport) Order [2022] – Consultation Period extended to 16th January 2023.
Newspaper Notice 25 November 2022
A number of figures to the Planning Report (Planning Report Appendices) were omitted from the version on this website when it went live and were uploaded on 1st December 2022. They were included from the outset in the copies available at the physical display locations and in the Railway Order Application to An Bord Pleanála.
Introduction
The National Roads Authority (operating as TII) in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by Section 37 of the Transport (Railway Infrastructure) Act 2001 (as amended and substituted) (“the Act”) will apply on or after the 30th September 2022 to An Bord Pleanála for a Railway Order for the Railway (Metrolink–Estuary to Charlemont via Dublin Airport) Order [2022] pursuant to the provisions of the said Act.
The Railway Order, if granted, will authorise the National Roads Authority (operating as TII) to carry out railway works and all works necessary to enable the construction, operation, maintenance and improvement of a railway designated as a metro including inter alia the construction of a fully segregated and automated railway and metro mostly underground approximately 18.8km in length with 16 stations running from north of Swords at Estuary through Swords, Dublin Airport, Ballymun, Glasnevin and the City Centre to Charlemont in the south of Dublin City Centre.
A copy of the newspaper notices published in newspapers circulating along the MetroLink Route are available here;
Newspaper Notice 17th September 2022
Newspaper Notice 25th November 2022
Further information on the Railway Order application process is available here.
During the RO process, TII has provided working documents and other materials to the Independent Engineering Expert and interested members of the public to assist their understanding of the project and their submissions and observations, even though those documents are not required to be submitted as part of the RO application. In the interests of transparency, TII makes any such documents available on the main project website here.
