Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I apologise that our Chairman had to leave. I have another question for Ms Graham. I notice that more and more of our train stations are becoming more automated and we are losing the stationmaster. I picked up on something in the NTA's opening statement where it refers to Cobh, which is a good example of what I am thinking of. Accessibility has been put in place but it has lost a stationmaster. People feel aggrieved that there is no person at the end of their journey. There might be only one person disembarking from a train and there is no one there for the purposes of safety and security. Is it the case that now all the disability issues are covered, we can just dismantle the manpower? Does the NTA support the lack of staff in these stations, which are becoming increasingly automated?