Departmental Expenditure
Dail Éireann — 2023-06-22
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Duncan Smith (LAB), Dublin Fingal

My concern is that perhaps we should be broadening what could be included in the capital spend. The earlier question spoke about expanding a rail network in the south east and the south-east connectivity. We have a really good campaign, South East on Track, for a line which begins in Rosslare, moves on to Waterford and moves up to Limerick. As Deputy Ó Cathasaigh said, we could have really good connectivity between our third and fifth cities and with minor upgrades of the line between Waterford and Limerick, it would be 1 hour 50 minutes. There are other areas that could come under capital expenditure that could be done with a quick spend that would make a real impact. Real-time passenger information notifications are becoming a real bad-news story. We really need to put work into those. Disability and accessibility, particularly on our rail services, is something that could be a quick fix and should be included in capital expenditure. We would be able to spend that money early in the year and it would have a huge difference.

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Sitting date: 2023-06-22