Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The railway station is in Bellahy in reality, rather than Charlestown. It is important that we keep it. I support efforts to maintain ownership of that line. In ten or 15 years, people will say it was always a no-brainer because it connects the north west to the west coast. I would love to have a room with a free wall to plaster on it all the articles that said there was never going to be anybody on the Limerick-Galway rail line. The witnesses are telling us people are sitting on the floors of carriages and standing. We should extend it to the north. If we do so, we will get the same surprising result because people are willing to travel 5 or 10 miles to get a train to a place like Galway, in particular for patients going to cancer treatment, for example. It is a no-brainer.