Fianna Fáil is being urged to "come clean" over how it plans to fund the development of the M20 and the DART Underground.

Fine Gael General Election candidate for Dublin Central, Paschal Donohoe, is urging the party to explain commitments made in its manifesto.

Minister Donohoe said: "Among the promises made in the Fianna Fáil manifesto is a commitment to recommence the DART Underground project, the tunnel element of which costs €3 billion. With no costing or any suggestion of how the project would be funded other than to say 'as soon as add additional resources allow within the fiscal space', the Party's plans for DART Underground are clearly going nowhere. This project, as initially proposed by Fianna Fáil, had to go back to the drawing board, following a recommendation by the National transport Authority (NTA), due to the fact that it could be delivered at a reduced cost to the taxpayer, while retaining the required rail connectivity.

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"Similarly, Fianna Fáil has failed to cost their plans to develop the M20, which is a project with a price tag of more than €800 million. This is the equivalent of all of the new priority roads listed in the Government’s Capital Plan. The Government has agreed to a mid-term review of the M20, as the economy continues to grow. Fianna Fáil's inclusion of this project in its manifesto, without stating how it will be funded, is a veiled attempt to hoodwink the electorate in Cork and Limerick for political gain."

(CD/MH)