Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have to be upfront and honest with the Deputy. There are so many different stations I would love to introduce but we do have a limited budget. I have a budget of €35 billion and I have €100 billion worth of projects ready to go. The first additional station in that region will be in Moyross in the next two years. I believe a station in Ballysimon could have major strategic benefit and be of development potential for the city of Limerick, similarly the opening of the Shannon-Foynes line. I am absolutely supportive of the development of the western rail corridor which I believe will be of fundamental help to that whole western arc and that is not funded within the existing national development plan, NDP. In truth, in terms of what we can build in the next five-year period, those projects I just mentioned will get priority. I would be very much in favour of a station in Crusheen but it has to sit within a planned programme. This is not to mention Cork metropolitan rail, cross-city and Galway; I could go on.

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