Dáil debates
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Pre-Budget Outlook: Motion (Resumed)
6:00 pm
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
As the Minister for Transport, Deputy Dempsey, stated, we are proceeding with the western rail corridor. There were many doubting Thomases who thought that this was merely a promise. The great news is — and I have photographic evidence to support it — that the track is being laid on the first phase of the western rail corridor, which stretches from Ennis to Athenry and which is on schedule to be completed next year and opened in 2009. This will be the biggest opening of a railway system in the history of the country and it will happen in the western region, which was under developed in the past.
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