Ms Kate Ivory:

The All-Island Strategic Rail Review was published in July 2024. That review was undertaken by the Department of Transport down here in conjunction with the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. As part of that review, 32 recommendations were set out to enhance and expand the rail system across Ireland, which include things like track capacity, electrification, increasing speeds and high service frequency. As part of that review there was a recommendation about the reinstatement of the western rail corridor. That will be considered as part of the overall review. Each of those recommendations will come for consideration and the Department of Transport will work with the European Investment Bank and the Department for Infrastructure in the North to progress those recommendations. I do not have a timeline on that at the moment because they are still working out how to progress each of those.