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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)
Marian Harkin: Three years?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)
Eamon Ryan: Well, for the guts of two years the Assembly was not in place and the administration in the North was not in place.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)
Marian Harkin: So it is their fault, okay.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)
Eamon Ryan: No, but that is just the reality. The reopening of the western rail corridor is of vital strategic importance for the national planning framework and better balanced regional development in our country. It should include the section between Athenry and Claremorris. It does not propose an extension to Sligo. However, the reopening from Athenry to Claremorris is of huge benefit because...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)
Marian Harkin: I am delighted to hear it. I have not heard any political party or any politician argue against it. The Minister is talking about bringing it as far as Claremorris but then says nothing more after that. I am trying to clarify, in this rail review and Government plans, whether that is as far as it will go. There is an argument locally about the Sligo greenway and whether that should go...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I have been clear in my position for the past two years and particularly since the publication of the review. It does not include the extension of the rail corridor from Claremorris north east towards Sligo. That makes a strong case for the use of that line as a greenway, as the Deputy suggested, and the benefit of that is we would be able to hold a line so that, if at some future date it...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)
Marian Harkin: Nobody in the west is arguing.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)
Eamon Ryan: There are indeed different voices in that regard. That will need to be clarified in the coming months when we come to priority decisions around whether we make this strategic leap towards supporting the west and supporting rail freight.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (16 May 2024)
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (16 May 2024)
Questions Nos. 56 and 57 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 May 2024)
Renewable Energy Generation
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 May 2024)
David Stanton: 58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the way in which southern ports will be supported in marshalling parts and assembling turbines for offshore wind power generation in relation to the newly published draft south coast designated maritime area plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21970/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 May 2024)
David Stanton: I congratulate the Minister and his Department on the work done on the designated maritime area plan, DMAP, which was published recently. There is more work do to there. However, my question today has to do with the southern ports. The Minister will be aware that Doyle Shipping Group has pulled out of anything to do with offshore wind and assembly of turbines. The Port of Cork has...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 May 2024)
Jack Chambers: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I am committed to facilitating the commercial State ports under my remit as positive contributors to the offshore renewable energy, ORE, industry to support Ireland in meeting its ambitious targets of 5 GW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2030, with a further 2 GW in development for the production of green hydrogen and other non-grid uses....
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)
Martin Kenny: Again, it is wait and see. We really need to see progress being made on all these issues and we have not.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)
Cathal Berry: The Deputy has had his last slot to respond to this question. We are moving on to the next question.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)
Martin Kenny: Go raibh maith agat.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (16 May 2024)
Airport Policy
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (16 May 2024)
Martin Kenny: 54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of his Department’s plans for upgrading the transport infrastructure around Dublin Airport and its environs. [22231/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (16 May 2024)
Martin Kenny: Will the Minister outline his plans for upgrading the transport infrastructure around Dublin Airport and its environs? We see a situation there, unfortunately, where we are entering the summer period when the airport will get busier and there are very few options for people to come and go from there. There is no rail infrastructure linking to it. There are buses, which are very often...