Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann

2:00 am

Ms Mary Considine:

I go back to the Deputy's point about it not being all-island. The emergence of this vision was a result of work done by the Department of Transport and the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. It is subject to review. There will be a ten-year review in 2035 or thereabouts. That will be the opportunity to ask where we go from here and what revisions need to be made. The Deputy is right to point out that we need rail connectivity all over the country. We had much more track capacity 100 years ago than we do today. It is about building that back up. We take on board the Deputy's comments. All of this will feed into a future review of the strategy.

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