Rail Network
Dail Éireann — 2022-09-22
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Peadar Tóibín (AON), Meath West

I was one of 40,000 people who left County Meath today to go to work.
No other county in the country sees a majority of its workers leave that county to go to work. It took two hours to travel from Navan to the centre of Dublin today and that is not unusual. Many people from other parts of the county are travelling two and a half hours for one journey. That comes to a five-hour commute for one day of work in a county with the second-fastest growing population in the country, with a town in the centre of it that is the largest town without a rail line. I am looking to see what progress has been made on the development of the rail line.

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Sitting date: 2022-09-22