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Metro North Oral Hearing

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  • #52
    ad hoc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭ad hoc


    That wasn't the last day of hearings - they've just been adjourned so that ABP and third parties can process the documentation presented by the RPA, (the applicant). Once this has been done, the hearings will resume at which point third parties will make presentations.


  • #53
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    anyone have any idea when??


  • #54
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,491 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    "NOT soon" was the unofficial word I got.


  • #55
    VanBosch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭VanBosch


    I appreciate your response was "unofficial" but did you get any feeling that it was:"Not Soon" as we have a lot of research etc to do or"Not Soon" as in lets not proceed as we have no money!


  • #56
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    VanBosch wrote: »
    I appreciate your response was "unofficial" but did you get any feeling that it was:"Not Soon" as we have a lot of research etc to do or"Not Soon" as in lets not proceed as we have no money!

    Both. The RPA has already been 'abolished' and this is the only jobbie that justifies it existing at all.

    Giving a dead quango a 3 year job inevitably means that the dead quango will drag it out for 13 years if possible.

    The fact that the intended 'live quango' is not yet actually live means that MN is now controlled by Zombies and a Larval rather than a Pupating Homunculous .

    Only in Ireland :(


  • #57
    Slice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭Slice


    So which completion date are we supposed to go by given that there's been so many for Metro North over the course of the planning stage so far? And which one are we meant use to determine whether or not it's been completed on time?

    It's easy to claim a project like this is on time when they continually revise the completion date, is it not?


  • #58
    Metrobest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭Metrobest


    The only quango that needs to be abolished here is An Bord Pleneala. It is needlessly delaying Metro North's progress with this oral hearing, which apparantly is being conducted "at the Board's discretion" (ie. it's not neccessary).

    One arm of the state delaying a mission-critical piece of national infrastructure while the citizens of north Dublin remain trapped to their cars.

    An Bord Pleneala should hang its head in shame.


  • #59
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,491 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Metrobest wrote: »
    The only quango that needs to be abolished here is An Bord Pleneala. It is needlessly delaying Metro North's progress with this oral hearing, which apparantly is being conducted "at the Board's discretion" (ie. it's not neccessary).
    Well, in fairness the application is 3,000 pages and 300 drawings. Then the RPA added all this additional information at the oral hearing:

    http://www.rpa.ie/en/projects/metro_airport_swords/build_and_operation_permission/Pages/MetroNorthRailwayOrderOralHearingEvidence.aspx

    While you might not feel an oral hearing is necessary, if it wan't held, people would just drag it through the courts.


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