Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have spoken about, and Deputy Calleary raised this earlier, the process by which rail projects are adjudicated and assessed to be viable. What is the model that is being used at the moment that Mr. Stacpoole believes should be changed? Is it a longer term model or does it take into account different factors? We have umpteen reports on the western rail corridor. We have the Ernst & Young report, the Bradley report and others. I am very pro-rail. I have taken the train service from Limerick to Dublin every week for many years. Mr. Stacpoole will know this. We had a public meeting on the Limerick-Shannon metropolitan area transport strategy, LSMATS, plan for Limerick and the metropolitan area, and rail was not in it. I want to see rail in it and I hope that will be adjusted. I will come back to the issue of the Ballybrophy line but I am more interested in getting to the nub of the matter here.