Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development

Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion

7:00 pm

Photo of Paudie CoffeyPaudie Coffey (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We will try to get a response on that.

For the officials' information, we devoted a full meeting to discuss a flooding issue on the Galway to Limerick railway line at Ballycar. I understand there has not been a resolution in respect of that matter. We engaged with all of the agencies but none of them is taking ownership of it. Do the officials from the Department have any information with regard to finding a resolution in respect of that issue? This is a primary railway route from Galway to Limerick - two of our main cities identified under Project Ireland 2040 - and it is unacceptable that it is being shut down due to flooding. If the officials have some information on that, we would appreciate their response. We will hear final answers now, and I thank the officials.

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