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

I will conclude as I have a minute of speaking time remaining. This will give us time to start ramping up what I see as key strategic projects, many of which have already started. There is the likes of the western rail corridor where we have started clearing the line this year. There is also building a rail link to Shannon, which refers back to what we said earlier about how we get better balanced regional development and arrive at a situation where not everything goes through Dublin. A critical piece of infrastructure such as this would be essential for the development of Limerick as well as Shannon.

There is opening the rail line from Rosslare to Waterford, which would have the benefit of creating a metropolitan rail system in the south east. We could have the new battery electric trains, which are arriving next week for testing and trial runs, running from Waterford to Carrick-on-Suir, Cahir, Kilkenny or Wexford.

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