Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Leddin. There is no question but that there are benefits to improving our infrastructure across the country and ensuring it supports regional development, in particular. That is why we have taken specific measures around the urban regeneration development fund. Almost €2 billion has been provided to our regions to provide compact urban growth. We need to improve our public transport capacity, in particular our rail capacity. The Deputy has specifically the western rail corridor. I and the Minister for Transport believe the western rail corridor certainly has merit. We will work through it as a Government to see how we can progress it further.

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