Mr. Garret Doocey:

Consideration has been given to it. Indeed, the Department, through the NTA, funded a feasibility study of light rail. It is very important - I would always make this point when we are talking about transport interventions, particularly in the cities, but it applies elsewhere as well - that we look at it from a multimodal approach rather than just as a pet project or a specific mode. For example, when we look at the Galway transport strategy, it is important to ask what role light rail can play. The feasibility study did indicate that light rail can play a role in Galway. However, it is about the interactions between light rail, the bus network, the active travel network and the heavy rail network together. It is really in the context of reviewing the Galway transport strategy. Once that is reviewed, there will then be an opportunity to look at the sequencing of investment and which bits of the overall network we invest in first.