Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann

Mr. Jim Meade:

We expect to be in a position by early summer, maybe mid-June, to have that tendering process back in. That will indicate the costs. We would like to then go live on every route but we will start looking at a hierarchy of routes, if we do not have enough money to do everything. We would then start looking at the longer haul routes, absolutely. The ideal scenario for us is to get catering on all the regional routes together. That is our ambition and what we are trying to do. That is what we briefed the NTA on. The NTA knows the range of costs that came in previously. Those were not in the most recent budget and the NTA knows we will try to budget for more. We do not expect the cost to come back down just because people realise they can get the service again. It will be more expensive. We just have to accept that.

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