Glad that the EU plays an important role in a new #PEACEPLUS project bringing real benefits to citizens & businesses.
€165m 🇪🇺 support to cross-border rail service Belfast➡️Dublin will foster transformation, regeneration & thriving communities.
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Cross-border intercity rail services between Belfast and Dublin are set to benefit from a €165 million investment from the new #PEACEPLUS Programme👇
We’re excited to be partnering with @youthlinkni, @youthinitatives and @mencapni to deliver Empower 2 Transform over the next four years.
Funded by PEACEPLUS through the Special EU Programmes Body - SEUPB
#Empower2Transform #E2T #PeaceBuilding #NorthernIreland
Minister Paschal Donohoe: ‘I’m delighted to see this significant rail funding under the new PEACEPLUS programme. This investment of €165m is going to support shared and sustainable connectivity on our island’. Department for Infrastructure An Roinn Iompair - Department of Transport Translink Iarnród Éireann Northern Ireland Office EUinmyRegion🇪🇺
SEUPB Department for Infrastructure An Roinn Iompair - Department of Transport Translink Iarnród Éireann Why is it called the peaceplus program?
Brilliant news @translink larnród Éireann 💙 secure €165m #peaceplus to replace existing 4 enterprise with 8 new train sets by 2030 & start journey towards fully electrified cross border service.
Enhanced service, with peak hourly trains, will relocate to GCS #LinenQuarter in Q4 2024
RTÉ Business That's amazing news! The funding from PEACEPLUS will greatly enhance the Dublin-Belfast train service and bring about a major transformation. Thank you to Iarnród Éireann and Translink for this joint venture.
Into The West Paul Sceeny Translink Department for Infrastructure John O' Dowd This money isn’t all from Dept Infra unless you know the % breakdown of PEACEPLUS between the EU, UK gov, NI Executive and Gov of Ireland?
Are you saying that we are contributing the majority from our budget or totally conflating where the money is coming from?
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Into The West Paul Sceeny Translink Department for Infrastructure John O' Dowd - The £141m is not coming from the DFI budget.
- The £200k cannot come from the PEACEPLUS budget.
Re that upgrade for D>B>C, obviously a cheap win and a cheap fix in the grand scheme of things, you get no argument from me there. It’s a separate issue however.