Mr. Lorcan O'Connor:

As I said, local authorities are ultimately responsible as the sponsoring authority. You only had to listen to the guests at this committee earlier talking about the CEO of Waterford City and County Council and their direct involvement to try to ensure community support. I agree with that. To go to the Senator's point about railway lines, we obviously have successful greenways that we can point to now that used unused railway lines. There is clearly significant investment going in to both existing rail line services and their expansion. Anything that is earmarked in the all-island rail strategy would be reserved for rail.