Mr. Hugh Creegan:

On when the electric train service to Adamstown will be provided, it is a few years away yet. We have to buy fleet, do various resignalling works on those lines and four-track the line for a section of it. I suspect will be around 2027 or 2028 before that happens. It may be possible to do something with battery-electric fleet earlier but I am not too sure.

Kishoge station is a long-running saga. We thought it would be open by now, to be fully transparent with the Deputy, but a survey showed because it was built almost 12 years ago major remedial works turned out to be required. Irish Rail is organising those remedial works to the building structure. It does not meet current accessibility codes and things like that. That work must be done and is going to be done this year and I think it runs into next year. At that stage we can open it. It was news to us such an amount of upgrading was required but it genuinely was. It is now being funded and is happening. When it is complete we have to open that station.

On Hazelhatch station, it is worth knowing that on the C spine there are a number of services we put in that actually connect to that to make it more useful. On providing a cycling connection from there into Celbridge, I suspect that is on our cycle network. I would have to pick it up with Kildare County Council to see where it fits in its plans for delivery.