Mr. Padraic Moran:

Again, this is where it goes back to infrastructure. If I go to Seapoint on an eight-carriage DART, I must be in the third carriage. If I go to Dalkey on a six-carriage DART, I must be in the fourth carriage. It literally depends which station one is going to, and the automated ramps must be on the carriage behind the driver because he or she will have to see the ramp going down and going up. Tara Street and Connolly stations are on bends, so the driver cannot see past the fourth carriage. Therefore, infrastructure-wise, automated ramps will not work in every station. Irish Rail piloted this before about ten years ago, wasted an awful lot of money and then realised, if it wanted automated ramps, it would have to rebuild some of the infrastructure, which would be too expensive.