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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regional Development (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: First, there was a huge expansion in our capital ambition, in particular in regard to investments in transport for which I have responsibility in the NDP. We got an allocation of €35 billion which I think actually exceeds the allocation for housing. Two Departments were prioritised by the Government. One was housing and the other, on the capital side, was the transport sector....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regional Development (16 May 2024)

Cathal Berry: I thank the Minister. He can come back in again.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regional Development (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: -----we are going full steam ahead with the TEN-T projects. They include the road from Lifford to Letterkenny, the Manorcunningham to Letterkenny road and the bypass of Stranorlar and Ballybofey. What I said to the councillors I met last week, who are interested in the project, is that we will do everything to advance that project as fast as we can because it is an example of the projects...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I do not have the details of that stop, so I will have to come back to the Deputy directly on that. I do not have information about the plans for that stop. On the wider issue the Deputy raised about enhancing the ability to get drivers and mechanics, I am open to all initiatives and suggestions. Bus Éireann has looked at a variety of different ways. We have looked at moving some of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (16 May 2024)

Question No. 60 taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Rail Network

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made in considering the all-island strategic rail review since the establishment of the Northern Ireland Assembly; when it is hoped to approve it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22041/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What progress has been made in considering the strategic rail review since the establishment of the Northern Ireland Assembly? Will the Minister give some indication of when this rail review, which everyone has been waiting for for a long time, will finally be published?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I will not read out the written response because it is very similar to what Deputy Marian Harkin would have heard only a few minutes ago.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Unfortunately, I was chairing a committee at that stage.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: It will be available to the Deputy in written format in any case. If I can answer his question directly, the strategic rail review has been very public for over a year and a half. We had to go to a strategic environmental assessment. We decided that, in advance of the Assembly returning in the North, we would publish it because we had to go into that public consultation, so the details are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a relatively recent invention of Government that the purely economic case of everything has to be justified. There are many things we do in society for societal good that do not make economic sense but they make social sense, regional balance sense and common sense, which is becoming very uncommon. Will the Minister outline the procedures? He has outlined the first one, where he has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Deputy fully. I would add the environmental issue to his list of common-sense considerations we have to take into account. The opponents of investing in rail freight argue that it is not economic and does not make sense, but they do not answer the question of how they intend to decarbonise our haulage system and do not take that into account as a key strategic objective...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I provided funding of, I think, €5 million to clear the line from Collooney, all the way down to the CLÁR area boundary, which was south of Claremorris, back in 2006. What we need now is construction. We know the line is intact. We have been trying to explain that for a long time. It is intact from Collooney. That section of the line was cleared last year, but perennially...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank Deputy Ó Cuív for the question. My interest is also in the western rail corridor. The Minister mentioned freight being part of it and that the analysis around all of that may bring that economic argument across the line. I feel another problem we have with it is that when an analysis is done of passenger numbers, it is done in much too narrow a scope. For instance, when...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 May 2024)

David Stanton: The situation is extraordinarily serious. Planning in place in the Port of Cork runs out next year and it may be very hard to extend it or get new planning. The rubber is hitting the road very quickly because the port needs funding very soon to expand. Will the Minister of State tell me where that money is going to come from? That is the bottom line here. We were told the port needs up...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 May 2024)

Jack Chambers: I will conclude what I was about to say and then respond to the Deputy's direct question. The Port of Cork has been assisted by Department officials in applying for the EU's Connecting Europe Facility. We provided support and guidance on those applications. This can help the port obtain 30% of the costs for infrastructure and up to 50% of the costs for other studies. The results of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 May 2024)

David Stanton: The Minister of State gives me only some comfort because he stated, and he can correct me if I am wrong, that the port can obtain 30% of the costs. That is not enough. It needs 100% of the cost to have certainty. There are many companies looking at this and making serious investment decisions to the tune of billions of euro. We need clarity here. The Minister of State said we are going...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 May 2024)

Jack Chambers: There is a need to ensure progress on this. We are engaging regularly with the Port of Cork on its needs, both in meetings and through correspondence, in respect of the proposed development at Ringaskiddy. There is extensive engagement with the corporate governance division on the financing needs of the port. The offshore renewable energy ports division, which was established last year,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (16 May 2024)

Public Transport