Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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It is real and it is happening. Companies like Baxter up in Mayo have switched to using container rail freight shipping out of Waterford. We will be putting in an order for new rail freight wagons, which will help develop that trade. We are building the new rail line to Foynes - I was there myself a few weeks ago - across the Deel river, and there was a new Deel bridge, which is concrete, real and will be in place in 2026, in operation and ready to go. Those new rail freight wagons will run there. We have employed consultants from the EIB to take the strategic rail review and look at turning the strategic objectives into a plan of implementation. Central to that, in my mind, is the building-out of the western rail corridor from Claremorris to Athenry.