Mr. Barry Kenny:

I am speaking in the context of the alignment that we own today. Significant sections of this alignment having originally been developed as single track, with passing sections of track to facilitate frequency. If we look exclusively at the alignment that remains in our ownership it is challenging. It would probably be foolish just to look at this. If, as is anticipated, we develop Athenry to Claremorris, and the local authorities are keen to develop a greenway as well as the railway when it is being developed, there could not be a better time to do it and to engage with the landowners, with whom we would be engaging anyway as part of the project development, to have whatever strip of land bounding the alignment developed at the same time. It would be a different delivery agency but we would work with local authorities in this context. It is easy to look at it narrowly in our land ownership but this is probably the wrong way to approach it, particularly, as Deputy Kenny said, there is general community support for better public transport infrastructure and active travel infrastructure.