Ms Anne Graham:

Part of the national development plan allows for investment in the DART expansion programme, which deals with the commuter rail lines and a move towards electrifying all of them, to Drogheda, Maynooth and Celbridge. In the interim, we will purchase a fleet that can run either hybrid diesel or diesel-electric or a hybrid diesel battery. That will build up our fleet and capacity on the rail lines in the interim in order that when electrification is in place, the fleet units can operate as electric vehicles. Our focus is on looking at the type of fleet available and purchasing a hybrid fleet to build up capacity and follow on with the electrification of those lines.