Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 February 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Development Plan: Discussion

Mr. Colin Dunne:

To respond to the question the Deputy put to me, with Waterford being a lift-on, lift-off port, it has the capacity pretty much immediately to accommodate rail freight from Ballina to Waterford and vice versa. That would, therefore, be a quick win. The Deputy will have heard the chief executive officer of the Port of Waterford, Mr. Frank Ronan, talk about the additional capacity that is available today to take more twenty-foot equivalent units, TEUs, which are lift-on, lift-off containers. From the charter party’s perspective, which we are, we would be ready to roll pretty much straight away, notwithstanding my comments with regard to track access fees.

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