Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Exactly, Shannon is another example. This area is evolving but I understand new electric battery options are coming into view. Irish Rail will have to come back to us on the technical aspects but I believe that is where we are going to go, towards electrification and compact development built around good quality public transport systems.

We are doing a rail review this year. Mr. Doocey, who is seated behind me, is commissioning it. Let us go back to Tipperary town. The town has a brilliant railway station. We have discussed the route from Nenagh to Limerick, but why not consider a route from Carrick-on-Suir or Clonmel to Waterford? That would build up Waterford as the capital of the south east, if that is not too difficult a thing to say politically. It would also benefit Carrick-on-Suir and Clonmel. Those towns have fantastic infrastructure. We can either let it go or restore it and bring it back. Let us do up the railway station in Tipperary town and start running proper services to and from it. At the moment, the service in Tipperary town, Clonmel or Carrick-on-Suir cannot really be used because a pony or horse and cart would be quicker. That is part of the solution and the rail review will look at it.