Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Speed and sustainability are clearly the ambition for all of us when it comes to this review's publication throughout the country and not just on my own commuter line. For sustainability in the modern environment, apart from freight clearly it must be electric. My personal ambition would be to see the electrification of the entire network in the coming decades, primarily for the purposes of ensuring that we can withdraw diesel or even hybrids from the rail network, exclusively for passengers of course. I appreciate that at present, it is not likely in the freight area. I would like to be able to stand over whatever review comes to publication in the autumn in terms of that particular ambition. As I said a number of different lines around the country could benefit from additional tracking, particularly the northern commuter line to Belfast but also the likes of Cork and elsewhere.

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