Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for the reply. He referred to the Colbert Quarter in Limerick, a very ambitious LDA project for residential and mixed-use development. It will support thousands of people to live and work in the heart of Limerick city, right beside Colbert Station.

I recognise the work of the working group that was set up in December 2021. Its focus has been on Dublin up to now. The Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, will know the project very well. We must start to focus on the other cities. Limerick has incredible potential for transit-oriented development, and not just in the Colbert Quarter around the main train station. The transport strategy supports the development of further train stations around the underutilised lines. Limerick is unique in the Irish context in that we have four lines going in and out of the city and there is provision in the transport strategy for multiple train stations around Limerick. We should look at this not simply as a transport strategy but as a housing development strategy as well. There is potential for housing around all of the transport nodes in Limerick.

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