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All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State very much. I thank Members.

Estimates for Public Services: Messages from Select Committees (9 Jul 2025)

Estimates for Public Services: Messages from Select Committees (9 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for public services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. Amendment No. 1 in the names of Deputies Clarke, Cullinane and Ó Murchú has been ruled out of order. It was previously rejected in a committee of the whole Dáil.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Amendment No. 1 not moved.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Amendment No. 2 in the names Deputies Clarke, Cullinane and Ó Murchú arises out of committee proceedings. Amendments Nos. 2, 3, 5, 34, 39, 49, and 121 to 133, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together. Does Deputy Clarke wish to speak to these amendments?

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the all-island strategic rail review. It is an important piece of work. Anyone who looks at the old maps of the railway lines compared to today knows there is a significant job of work to fill the gaps. There are lots of gaps, such as the west and the north-west, but I wish to focus on my area. It is important and I welcome that we have DART+ West at...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted the Minister of State is here. I compliment him on his appointment and I wish him well. I have been working with him on many issues. I look forward to engaging fully. We have a rail service from Waterford to Limerick. It is wholly inadequate. I get on the train in Cahir and change at Limerick Junction. Cahir train station is not open. People cannot buy a ticket....

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to ask the Minister of State to provide enough trains and carriages to bring the people from Kerry up to Dublin on Saturday and to bring them home. We are taking on Tyrone and we need our supporters there. We hope we will win the match. We will be looking for more trains then to come up again. We have one train service that operates at different hours...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: When the Ministers were announced, I was delighted the Minister of State, Deputy Canney was being given this responsibility. He realises the importance of the western rail corridor. The Claremorris to Athenry line is fundamentally important for our region. The Minister of State is only up the road and knows the value of this. I ask him to drive on this project and make sure that the...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: We heard recently that the population of the island of Ireland has gone above 7 million for the first time. It is really a great time to be looking at an all-island rail strategy. What is not to like about this strategy? I commend the Minister of State but I also want to commend Eamon Ryan who initiated this strategy a few years ago. It is great that it was done. Rail is a great way to...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: It is great to have a debate on the all-island strategic rail review. One of the key recommendations of the review is the reopening of the western rail corridor and the consideration of same. The Minister of State has been a strong advocate for the western rail corridor since long before I entered politics in 2019. I commend him on that. I will be doing everything I can as a Fianna...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Peter Roche: I acknowledge the extension of the last train from Galway to Dublin on Saturdays, which is now running at 8.50 p.m. as opposed to 7.25 p.m., which is a step in the right direction. It is important also to highlight the inconsistency in the service during the week. The last train departs at 10.25 p.m., yet on Saturdays, when demand for cultural and social events peaks, the cut-off is at the...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the publication of the all-island strategic rail review. This transformative plan sets out 32 strategic recommendations that would almost triple the number of people using our rail network, from 65 million journeys a year to 180 million by 2050. Critically, it would bring 700,000 more people within a 5 km radius of a railway station, boosting access in communities North and South...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Ryan O'Meara: I would like to raise the Limerick to Ballybrophy regional line with the Minister of State. Before coming in here, I told one of my colleagues what I was going to speak on and the response was, "Oh, do you have a railway line in north Tipperary?" This railway line is probably one of Iarnród Éireann's best-kept secrets. It services Birdhill, Nenagh, Cloughjordan and Roscrea but...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am really glad the Minister of State, Deputy Seán Canney, is here, and the reason for that is the western rail corridor. He has always been committed to it. I commend him on how he worked when in opposition to secure the western rail corridor – first the link from Athenry to Claremorris and then the link from Claremorris to Collooney. Therefore, I do not need to tell him how...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: The all-island strategic rail review, published in July 2024, outlines a comprehensive vision for enhancing the rail system across Ireland and Northern Ireland up to 2050. Recommended in it are additional capacity, faster services, higher frequency, electrification and new routes. These are great except if you live in rural Ireland, where I happen to live. Light rail is to come to Cork...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome this opportunity. I remember doing the Leixlip–Ballycoolin water main in 2004 or 2005. An area from Clonee to Navan was supposed to be left for rail. The rail was nearly to come the following day but the position is still the same. Although the posts are up and will soon be rotten, no rail ever came. In the west, the Claremorris–Athenry line is ferociously...

Meastacháin i gcomhair Seirbhísí Poiblí 2025: Teachtaireacht ó Roghchoiste (9 Jul 2025)