Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)

We need to reassure commuters across the country that rail lines are safe. Much of the work was built in the century before last. There are hundreds of viaducts and nearly 2,000 underbridges and so on. Why can we not have all of the recommendations? Only seven of them have been taken care of so far. When will the rest be implemented to reassure all commuters that travelling by rail is safe and that the standards that are supposed to be in place have been implemented?

When will the EU railway safety directive be up and running? The standards are stricter, but the RSC will be in charge of its implementation and I am afraid that the investigation of the Malahide viaduct collapse showed the RSC was not up to the job.

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