Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann

Mr. Jim Meade:

The Deputy will be aware that we have put a great deal of work into Ennis station in the last 18 months to two years. We have installed new ramps, lifts and an overbridge in the station. We are finishing a complete revamp and replacement of both platforms to a modern standard. The station is on a programme of refurbishment with seven-year cycles. Off the top of my head, I am not sure where it is on that for repainting and maintenance. We have staff who work in the station, so I would not have said there is a drab feel to it. However, it is part of our ongoing maintenance schedule. From 2008 onwards, we probably went through most of a decade in which we did not have anywhere near enough funding for that type of maintenance and it was put on the back burner. I am happy that has been reversed, and we started about a year and a half ago or so with a programme for bringing everything back up to standard. The Deputy will see the standard improve.

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