Seanad debates

Thursday, 14 November 2002

Rail Services and Related Transport Matters: Statements.

 

Last July I attended a public meeting organised by the strategic rail review in Limerick. My purpose in attending was to promote the development of the Nenagh line. At the meeting private companies implored CIE to get its act together with regard to providing a service for them. Companies want to use rail freight and the railway line, but CIE is preventing them from doing so. It is extraordinary. I hope the Minister's top priority is to sort out the attitude within the company regarding the future development of rail. There is a rail infrastructure, but it is not being used. To date, €15 billion has been spent on the national roads programme, yet very few roads have been built. What would that expenditure have done for rail?

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