Mr. John Mulligan:

Unfortunately, Deputy Martin Kenny had to leave, but I want to bust a myth about the idea of rail versus trail. From the beginning of dealing with this, we have never said we are against a railway - never. We always qualify what we say by saying we are not opposed to a railway, but let us see a plan for a railway before we say we are in favour of it.

What Deputy Kenny mentioned about a greenway going on the railway is wrong, with respect to him. There is no railway on this. What is there, and Irish Rail has told us, is scrap metal, timber and stone. It has to come up anyway. Nobody is putting a greenway on anyone's railway. The councils, not us, are putting a greenway on some unused land, under a very strict licence, and again we clarified this back in 2011 with Irish Rail. The licence states at the outset that the primary use of the asset is for rail. That is written into it.

I have great respect for Deputy Kenny, who is a man of principles. He said that we should be qualifying what we say. I would say that the people who are pro-rail should be saying that they are not against a greenway. It is two-way street.