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 answer to that is "No" because we are concentrating on the existing infrastructure and footprint we have and maximising the return from it. The Deputy's point is valid. I would say it could take people an extra half an hour or 45 minutes at the end of a journey if they travel by train. However, they have a two-hour window to do things while they are travelling that they cannot do in the car, as we said earlier. That is working time. I do it all the time when I travel up and down to Limerick. Committee members who travel do the same thing. That is quiet time or working time. If I travel up and down from home on the train, I can do three hours' or three and a half hours' work.

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