Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann
Mr. Jim Meade:
I agree with the earlier comments around infrastructure and the strategic importance of it. We have started with the study on Ballysimon, as we have in Moyross, but they are constituent parts of the overarching plan on what we can deliver under The Limerick-Shannon Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy 2040, or LSMATS. That strategy looks at all the rail infrastructure around Limerick and how that can contribute by giving connectivity to the hospital, to the shopping centres, to the Technical University Shannon and to Thomond Park, the spiritual home of rugby - I hope there are no Cork people here. We are absolutely about it. We have some funding already in place and we started the studies around Ballysimon Moyross. The LSMATS programme will enhance that further.
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