Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport
All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann
2:00 am
Malcolm Byrne (Wicklow-Wexford, Fianna Fail)
I congratulate Ms Considine on her appointment. Mr. Kenny will probably know already the question I am going to ask. I will have to excuse myself in a moment. I am actually due on RTÉ in three minutes. This is a very direct and blunt question. I am from Gorey, County Wexford. Gorey is the same distance from Dublin as Carlow, Portlaoise, Drogheda and Dundalk. In my constituency there are three railway stations, Rathdrum, Arklow and Gorey. I have six rail services that I can use every day. Somebody from Carlow will have 11, somebody from Dundalk will have 16 and someone from Portlaoise will have 32. I love when we hear all the talk about the double track in other parts of the country but we are not seeing it on the Rosslare rail line. I put a question to Mr. Kenny's predecessor, Jim Meade, about services to be developed south of Wicklow town, but the answer I received was about all the services being developed north of Wicklow town. Is Iarnród Éireann going to provide any improvements to rail services for those in Gorey and Arklow in the constituency I represent?
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