Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 November 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 31 - Transport
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 9 - Appraisal of Rail Project Investments
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 21 - Collection of Motor Vehicle Taxes
Financial Statements: Motor Tax Account 2024

2:00 am

Photo of Joanna ByrneJoanna Byrne (Louth, Sinn Fein)

We will follow up on that. Moving to something that probably goes hand in hand with that, I noted in the previous section, programme B, that there seemed to be a lot of investment in fleet as opposed to the supporting infrastructure. I am of the same mindset when I move on to the rail network. There has been a lot of talk about train stations and their importance. I think we have all grasped that today. Going back to the northern environs of Drogheda, there is a long-mooted northside train station, which would be a second train station in Drogheda right in the area of the port access northern cross route, the 7,000 new homes and additional population of 20,000 to 25,000. The Minister publicly said on the floor of the Dáil and in responses in the Seanad and the transport committee that there is no business case for a northside train station. That is despite it being on housing brochures 20 years ago and people buying houses and moving from Dublin to Drogheda on the basis that the new station would be there. Has the Department done a feasibility note or assessment on the need or capacity to deliver a northside train station in Drogheda? Where is it in the conversation moving to the next level?

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