Mr. Barry Kenny:

Yes. This happened for a number of reasons. We developed a rail freight strategy to indicate how the policy and investment decisions that were needed to reassert and ensure that we had a strong, sustainable and viable rail freight offering could start to bring us back towards the typical offerings and presence that can be seen in Europe. Part of this meant linking tier 1 ports. Shannon Foynes is one of these. As climate action became a far stronger consideration, there was very clear policy support to do that. We own the alignment, so it is relatively straightforward. It is not a planning process as such but it is effectively a track renewal project. The Deputy is correct, ultimately it came about quite quickly in the end. Thankfully, we are doing the work now and we are on target to have it open in late 2025 or early 2026.