Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would be delighted to do that. I will come to Deputy Troy's questions. I apologise if anybody seemed to be celebrating too much about the 24-4 pilot. That was not the intention. There is a distinction between celebrating and announcing something to the public. It was a breakthrough but it was not enough. There was no suggestion at that stage that it was in any way a final outcome. It was to let the public and everybody who is suffering a disability know there was going to be a change from 24 hours notice to four hours notice but also that it was a pilot scheme. The important thing is it is a pilot scheme on the DART. People should know it is being addressed. There should be information that is being addressed and that they can use it. The important thing about the 24-4 is that there is feedback during and afterwards about how it is working. This is not the final outcome. As somebody else said, it is not enough. It was certainly announced and it was given a huge amount of publicity, which was positive, but the important thing is that people knew about it so the pilot worked. As a result of conversations I had with at least three disability groups recently, we will ask Iarnród Éireann to report on how that pilot is going so we can get the information and release it so people know what is actually happening. It should not be stored up and kept secret in the vaults of Iarnród Éireann. It has to be taken in so that people can see it including those who have contributed to it. We should go ahead on that basis.

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