Climate Change Policy
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-10
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Denis Naughten (IND), Roscommon-Galway

The OECD report on reducing Ireland's transport emissions talks about deep transformation that needs to be reflected in our spatial and transport planning, which we all know needs to be built around real investment in rail. Yet in the first major rail carriage investment under the Minister's tenure, Galway city has been ignored and Athlone, which is supposed to become a new city with three major rail lines, gets just one morning train to Westport and another one from Tullamore.

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Sitting date: 2022-11-10