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

It will take several months. It will be completed later in the year. I mention that because of the potential of freight development in particular. It will not be easy or certain and the distances involved in travel in this country are short. It would require a significant change in transport patterns, but I include it as one of the prospects at which we should look along the entire western rail corridor from Waterford up through towns such as Carrick-on-Suir, Clonmel, Cahir, Bansha and Tipperary town and all the way to Ballina.