Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion
11:00 am
Mr. Ian Talbot:
To clarify, on the point about Irish Rail, I think I said - I certainly meant to, if I did not - that I thought it was great that it had a go at increasing capacity and it was most unfortunate that it has to reverse it. I hope the company will try again. That is our best bit of rail infrastructure and it was just a huge challenge to get any more capacity onto it. These are the things we really need to make progress on. That is where we have a line in place already. In the places we do not have any public transport other than buses, and in many cases we do not even have those, it is critical for the future of sustainable cities and for people's quality of life.