Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)
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Question 66: To ask the Minister for Transport the funding he has set aside in the 2007 Estimates for the upgrade, commissioning, and reopening of train stations; the status of Avoca Train Station and the plans there are to reopen it. [12659/07]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Iarnród Éireann has been allocated Exchequer funding of just over €395 million in 2007 for capital investment in the railway network. This will fund the new Docklands Station, Portlaoise train care depot, the Railway Safety programme, a programme of automation of level crossings, rail network resignalling, continued upgrading of rolling stock through acquisition of all new intercity fleet, and the commencement of work on the Kildare Route Project (including 4 new stations), the Cork — Midleton Project (including four new stations), and Phase 1 of the Western Rail Corridor (Ennis-Athenry). It will also fund planning and design work on projects such as City Centre Resignalling, Dunboyne/Navan line (Phase 1 of which includes three new stations), the Interconnector and the electrification of the Maynooth line.

I am informed by Iarnród Éireann that it has no plan at present to reopen Avoca station but that it will keep the matter under review having regard to developments in the area which might justify the reopening the station