Mr. Jim Meade:

I can clarify that the NTA has asked us to start looking at those policies and looking at what would be involved in providing such services to some of those centres. We have to bear in mind the level of investment that would be required in a rail network to give a high level of commuter activity into centres like those the Deputy mentioned that have a single railway line and a single track which can only have one train in one direction at any one time. The ability to go two ways is not available.