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:

I confirm that the north west is very much a part of the all-island review, as we said earlier. On the relative costs, I will come back to the Deputy with accurate figures but you are probably looking at €1.5 million or €1.75 million on our own land. After that, you are into the price of land and compulsory purchase orders so that figure could easily double if you are compulsorily purchasing virgin soil. On category 2 RRDF funding, if we can get funding to do any of those studies, we will be more than happy to do them. We will work through them with whatever agencies are involved. We worked with the local authority and supported it in getting the URDF funding for Galway and Oranmore. That was very successful and those works were fully funded. We got a letter of intent from the NTA which said that, if we were successful in getting that funding with the local authority, it would make up the difference. That all worked. "Yes" is the short answer on that question.

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