Mr. Padraic Moran:

Yes. What I did not touch on when initially presenting was that the hub system Irish Rail launched two weeks ago is already in place whereby every fourth DART station is manned, namely, Bray, Dalkey - it is supposed to be manned - Blackrock and Pearse stations; I cannot remember the ones after Pearse station. That system is already in place and it is not working. As the company got it wrong on its launch, what do the rest of us have to do?

Regarding platforms being narrower at certain stations, at Killiney, Dalkey, Sandycove, Glenageary and Lansdowne Road stations, as well as certain parts of Blackrock and Sydney Parade stations, one has to be at a certain point on the train for a ramp to be able to go down because the platforms are too narrow when the train passes a certain point and there is no room to put down a ramp safely and alight from it. I was perplexed that Barry Kenny did not know that. Irish Rail is sending out public relations, PR, representatives to talk to people when it does not know its own infrastructure. I questioned him about that in an interview on East Coast FM and he was dismissive of it. He just said that the platforms are the same length. They are the same length but because of the location of the fixed buildings on the platforms, there are issues with them. Irish Rail will need to fix those before it even considers the introduction of automated ramps because to introduce automated ramps, an automated ramp will be needed in each carriage and it will say it cannot afford to do that.