Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 January 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Investment Framework for Transport in Ireland: Discussion

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

That is fair enough and I agree, but the Chairman can allow me to be passionate too. We built a station at Pelletstown recently which would be similar to the type of station to be put into Moyross, and it cost about €12 million. Could we build that in three years? Could we get it through planning and get it constructed? If we went about this climate crisis in the same way we went about the Covid crisis, could we do that? I think we could. I think the people in Moyross would see that as a hugely positive development.

There is a lot of work done, a lot of the network is already there and it is a matter of joining it up. Would the Chairman or Deputy Carey agree that the sustainable transport route connecting UL, and I pick these iconic routes because they show intention to where we are going-----

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