Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We are years behind our European counterparts when it comes to investment in our rail infrastructure. Does the Minister accept that it is the State's responsibility to invest in our public rail network and that Iarnród Éireann is on the brink of collapse due to financial problems caused by lack of funding and investment for years? This led to serious safety issues being raised in the company but the Minister did not think our national rail network, Iarnród Éireann, merited mention in his budget or his press release on the budget. In view of the dire financial crisis it is in what specific new additional money has been ringfenced for capital investment and public service obligation, PSO, funding in Iarnród Éireann?

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