Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is obviously not that big of a priority when it relates to the west of Ireland because every other priority has been done. A rail service was put in towards Navan and that was done even though a business case for it would not stack up. It was the one thing that was put into the programme for Government for the west of Ireland. People have tried to secure information on this from the Department through freedom of information requests but have been dilly-dallied around with and not given the information. They requested files but there is nothing on the file. There was nothing that said the Department had tried to do this TEN-T application. We keep getting fobbed off on this issue because it relates to the west of Ireland.