Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government contains a commitment to consider the report on the future of the western rail corridor and to take appropriate action. That report was commissioned by Irish Rail and carried out by EY-DKM. It was assessed again by Irish Rail after the report was produced and assessed by officials in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. It has been resting on the desk of the former Minister, Shane Ross, since last October. This infrastructure is critical to the development of the western region in the future. It has been lying idle for 40 years.

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We urgently need to see the report so we can act on its findings and bring this infrastructure back into use again.

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