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Sinn Fein's Donegal
North East election candidate, Cllr. Pádraig
MacLochlainn, has said that an all-Ireland rail
network including Donegal and the North West region
is "realistic and achievable".
His comments come after Sinn Féin MP Conor Murphy -
who is also Regional Development Minister in the Six
Counties - visited Donegal on Saturday in a
pre-election visit to both constituencies.
"Obviously the priority of an accessible and
affordable all-Ireland rail network, specifically
providing for Donegal and the North West, is high up
the agenda of Donegal Sinn Féin's election campaign.
Delivery of such a goal is a realistic and
achievable objective," said Cllr. MacLochlainn.
"Conor Murphy's private pre-election visit to
Donegal at the weekend provided, among other things,
an opportunity for rail campaigners to once again
voice the demand for a new railway network in the
county and the region. Donegal Sinn Féin remains
strongly and actively supportive of that logical
objective.
"Sinn Féin in the North and the South is focused on
the practical all-Ireland benefit of providing
public services to all regions on the basis of
balanced development. Donegal's future railway
network will be an important element of all that."
Sinn Fein now awaits the outcome, over coming
months, of a €25,000 feasibility study on railway
provision, commissioned by Donegal County Council
following a formal proposal in the County
Development Plan by Sinn Féin.
Cllr. MacLochlainn added: "I have undertaken to
continue briefing Conor Murphy about the progress of
that feasibility study, our ongoing railway
proposals and the region's wider infrastructural
needs in the time ahead. All-Ireland progression on
North West development is the only way forward."
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