Mr. Hugh Creegan:

We know there is a problem during peak hours on rail. To repeat, at the moment there is no spare rail fleet to put into service during peak hours as all available fleet is in service. Unfortunately, there is no quick answer. It will be 2023 before the new DART fleet starts to arrive. There are two other options that are still being worked through. One is whether we could acquire second-hand fleet, although there are questions as to where it would come from and how much modification would be needed. The Irish gauge - the distance between the two tracks - is different from virtually every other European country and any fleet that comes in would have to be modified. We are still working through what that would mean and whether it is worth doing it or not. The second option is to acquire some more of the non-DART-type fleet that were purchased a number of years ago, which are known as intercity rail cars. A large number were purchased six or seven years ago and there could be an option to purchase more of those carriages to extend existing train sets. We will be making decisions on one or other, or both, of those solutions in the next couple of months.