An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business Seanad Éireann — 2026-05-06 ============================================================ Linda Nelson Murray (FG), Industrial and Commercial Panel I second my colleague. I met Jordan and Cian yesterday at the start of the Navan run and my goodness, it was such a humbling experience to hear them speak about what is going to lie in their future, what they are doing and the money they have raised. I advise everybody to get out in their counties to meet these two boys when they arrive. They have only done nine counties so far, but Members should make sure they are there when they arrive because it is a very special time. I wish to use the remainder of my time to talk about Navan rail. Meath now has a population of 230,000 according to the last census and I have no doubt but that the figure is much larger than that. Time and again, public representatives, between county councillors such as Councillor Adenuga and Councillor Duffy, as well as many other cross-party councillors, TDs like the Minister, Deputy McEntee and all other TDs and myself, a Senator, have raised the issue of the absolute congestion of the car park that is the commute between Navan and Dublin or County Meath and Dublin. It is soul-destroying to waste precious work, family and leisure time stuck in traffic. In 1850, we had a train line in Navan, but 176 years later we do not. This is the single biggest piece of transport infrastructure we can push into County Meath that will take thousands of vehicles off the road every day and help everybody, including all the counties around us. We are desperate in County Meath for this rail line. We know the work has begun on the route selection for the Navan rail line. What I would like to know from the Minister and Irish Rail is when we will see this route and begin to progress this work. We were supposed to see it at the end of 2025. It was then going to be the beginning of 2026, but we still have not seen anything. I am asking that the route selected be put out for public consultation before the end of this month and that we make no excuses for this not happening. Let the people of Meath see the chosen route for the Navan railway line, let them have their say in May 2026 and do not delay any longer. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2026-05-06/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:54:54+00:00 Sitting date: 2026-05-06