Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport

National Roads, Light Rail and Metro: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Roderic O'GormanRoderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)

Moving to Cork and the light rail proposal there, the consultation on the emerging preferred route has just recently closed. In the TII submission, it said it was looking at a revised route for Cork in 2026 and a railway order submitted in 2028. It seems quite a lengthy process. Comparing with Luas Lucan, they were saying there would be an emerged preferred corridor in early 2026 but then the railway order in 2028. Is there any particular complexity to the Cork programme that seems to be elongating the process?

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