Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have heard the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, say how important it is to connect all that up. This is why I am confused. Every politician I speak to, with very few exceptions, seems to recognise the importance of it. If there is so much political support for it, why is it not happening? Why do we get a TEN-T report which leaves it out of the core projects again? During the Covid pandemic, there was a sudden realisation of the imbalance of the regions. We said we would do things differently and that we would not go to back to the way we were before. It now seems that everything is settling back again and we will not address regional imbalance. I ask Mr. Devane to outline the status of the Atlantic economic corridor. How important is rail infrastructure to that?