Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 February 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Development Plan: Discussion

Mr. Jim Meade:

We currently do not see a business model there. There is not a requirement today. My colleague, Mr. Carr, referenced that the infrastructure cost of making Rosslare a rail freight port would be prohibitive, with Waterford not far away and Cork, which can also be rail connected, not much further away along the coast. There is not a business case there today for Rosslare.

My point on the anchor tenant was that, when it was in operation, there was an anchor tenant in the sugar beet activity at Wellingtonbridge and there was three to four months of very intensive work there every year, bringing sugar beet to Wellingtonbridge while it was operational.

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