Dennis Leonard

It was ready to go.

Six different CEOs of Irish Rail have refused it.

Now, what they did then, Ciarán, a couple of years ago, they did a survey.

about how this station might actually run.

And they ran it along the bus route and decided to put in three stations on the route between Mullingar and Enfield, when all we asked for was a report, a consultant's report, which our council and the council in Westmeath were willing to actually fund, and they actually refused to do it.

So the amount of wasted money, I mean, the 200 million on consultant's reports have opened our station 20 times.

And then the biggest thing is they've got rid of the Dublin-Avon line, as you know.

They tore up a lot of the track.

I think they shipped half it off to China.

There was three times as amount of rail in this country.

I can't be contradicted on that.

In 1901, 1911, there was three times the amount of track.

So now they want to waste 50 million on an IT system, which is not fit for purpose.

when it could open our station five times over, and I'm sure other stations in similar positions to us.

So our option here is a two-hour commute to Dublin on the M4.

I'm sure you've heard about it many times on your morning traffic reports.

Or a two-hour bus journey from Caloocan through Longwood, whatever.

The train would take one hour.

And stop seven times a day, but they won't let anyone on or off.

Well, in 2007, Toose, which was at Lone IT at the time, a university professor there did a four-month study at the time at the behest of two councils and showed 232 people would use it on a daily basis and 240 on a kind of biweekly, whatever else.