Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is very welcome to our meeting and I thank him for his engagement and for the ongoing shift in modal behaviour. Part of me is cynical, worried and concerned yet excited about the Cork metropolitan area transport strategy, CMATS. I might be like a broken record on this. People have seen all the glossy strategy documents and Facebook or social media posts on the different priority investments. They want visualisation and priority delivery. Part of me says we are never going to get this. I am hoping we will. I support the Minister on active travel, BusConnects and the light rail for Cork. There is also the area of decarbonisation that the Minister spoke about in today's meeting.

We are very fortunate in Cork with Iarnród Éireann. The Minister has made appointments on the strategic rail review and the delivery of CMATS. We are lucky that Mr. A.J. Cronin in the Cork Irish Rail office is very driven and I commend him and his staff. How can we fast-track the delivery of these projects, as that is what people really want?