Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Rail Timetables: Iarnród Éireann

1:30 pm

Mr. Jim Meade:

I am happy to say we have been planning this with the ESB for a number if years. We work very closely with both the ESB itself and the ESB Networks. We have been identifying where we need substations and how to power them. I have said to the CEO of the ESB previously that we do not turn up with a cable over our shoulders and ask where we will plug it in. We very much planned this hand-in-hand with the ESB. It has a very long lead time on its projects, as do we, so we have been working with the ESB over the past couple of years for the whole DART+ programme. Indeed, we have started looking at the national electrification programme. That is what we would need in the next decade and decades beyond and we are working closely with the ESB on that.

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