Mr. John Mulligan:

Senator Kyne kept raising the concern as to what happens if a decision is made to have a railway and the greenway is in situ. It is very simple. I and all the people around me have said that it is great if we get a railway, but if we do not, at least we will have a greenway. At the inaugural meeting of the Sligo Greenway Co-op, its chairman, Mr. Pat McCarrick, said we should go for a greenway, that if we get a railway in ten years' time, that will be great, but let us go for what we can do now.