Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

With regard to rail, I was Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development. A working group was set up between the Department of Transport, Irish Rail, Clare County Council, the Office of Public Works, OPW, and the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, to consider the flooding of the rail line between Ennis and Limerick at Ballycar. Has the Minister of State any update on the Department's input into that report? Is the Department willing to provide funding to alleviate this problem? It is an annual issue whereby the rail line is covered in floodwaters for months at a time. It is an important point within the western rail corridor between Ennis and Limerick.