Nessa Cosgrove (Labour)

The western rail corridor is the other one. Even this morning, Deputy Daly raised the fact that we will incur billions in fines if we do not reach our climate targets. The opening up of the western rail corridor is a no-brainer. We talk a lot about balanced regional development. I would, as part of this transport committee, include the Claremorris-to-Collooney route. It is only 75 km. I know there is a commitment to extend the route from Athenry to Claremorris, but if we could just extend it from Claremorris to Collooney. There is an estimated cost of €445 million. We talk then about MetroLink. That has gone up to €11 billion. Surely this would be an alternative, a commitment to balanced regional development and to really looking at reducing our carbon emissions. We have no provision in the west of Ireland like that. In Donegal there is no rail provision at all. I really hope that this will be another area for consideration throughout the lifetime of this committee.