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CIÉ is the holding company, it is responsible for: - Providing legal services to the group - Managing claims for the group - Property management for the group - Providing IT & telecoms services to the group - Managing the group pension scheme - Providing insurance to the group

All of the options considered will be put into the public domain when the public consultation on the emerging preferred route happens later this year.

The Enterprise is slowed down significantly by having to trundle along behind DART services between Malahide and Connolly. The only freight (which is currently suspended due to works in Dublin Port) is zinc traffic to/from Tara Mines. There is of course a side benefit that would accrue in that...

You might well be an employee but working at the coal face doesn’t mean you’re going to be privy to how projects are being funded. If you had watched previous Oireachtas Transport Committee hearings as I have done, you’d know that what I am posting is correct. It was made clear at one of them...

With due respect it is not an NTA project - they didn’t fund it. If you did some basic research you’d realise that Irish Rail have taken the lead on this - this was very much Jim Meade’s project. The feasibilty study has been funded by the EU and the Department of Transport directly to Irish...

This isn’t an NTA project - it is an Irish Rail project. Perhaps let’s wait and see what the detailed plans are first. 1785744489 Precisely.

The point that I was making was that it is now being funded from the Shared Island fund as opposed to the DART+ funding pot - DART+ Coastal North is not funded currently and as such work won’t be happening on it until the next five year capital spending plan. This change means that those...

The Clongriffin loop is actually going to be progressed faster via funding from the Irish Government’s Shared Island fund, along with reinstating Mosney loop and some works at Skerries loop...

While tunnelling would be considered, it is highly unlikely that tunnelling will be the preferred option given the massive cost involved. Four tracking the existing railway, even with CPO, would be much cheaper.

We shall have to see - the details have yet to be published. I wouldn’t exaggerate the wealth of the areas either - some of them are quite deprived. 1785162455 Some high level information on FourNorth is now on the Irish Rail website...

It does not. It is four tracking the existing railway.

Again I don’t see where a single night’s accommodation would ever arise as a need in the first place in Ireland, and certainly not any more than that due to a missed connection. It is a non-issue. People need to apply some practical common sense to this. In practice these things would be dealt...

Folks I think you to use some common sense here. The last train to Rosslare is at 18:33 (slightly later at weekends). There won’t be a need for any overnight accommodation given the plethora of coach services available. There would be virtually no locations where that would be required in...

I said that it’s not a guaranteed connection. Expecting the Rosslare train to be held for a late running Belfast service is not realistic - the Rosslare service has a set window to get from Connolly to Greystones and it sticks to it. I don’t think Irish Rail’s CoC extend to providing overnight...

You can buy a through ticket from the booking office at Belfast Grand Central but it will cost more than buying separate singles for each leg online. The Rosslare train would not be held for a late running Belfast service - they are not viewed as guaranteed connecting services. You could...