Mr. Jim Meade:

I thank the Deputy. The Limerick-Ballybrophy line was in a poor state and was allowed deteriorate back through the decades. I am happy to say that in the last couple of years we have been renewing the track on that line. We have been doing planned closures of the line and doing four or six miles at a time. We planned for four miles this year and I am happy to say the Department is looking at funding the remaining eight miles. We are doing four miles this year then we will have eight miles left. It has not been approved yet but the Department is looking and we believe it will look favourably at allocating the funding to finish it. That will be the track brought back up to the specification it should be at. It is a line with an awful lot of level crossings on it. There are 12 manned level crossings and several hundred, I think, farmer's crossings. There is an issue with that. The speeds will never get to what you would get on the mainline but that said, the trackwork, infrastructure and track bed itself will be finished if this last €6.5 million comes. That would be significant for us because then that trackwork will be there for decades.

The Deputy mentioned people with disabilities.