Mr. Jim Meade:

I will answer the first couple of questions and then pass to my colleague, Mr. Carr, to answer the question on Rosslare. The rehabilitation of the Cork route is about maintaining our assets and maintaining the rail infrastructure - the track bed and the rails - to a high level. What we are doing is improving and renewing with a view to maintaining the current line speeds of 100 mph. As we progress and extend the amount of 100 mph running that we can do, that is with the ultimate goal of getting the Dublin to Cork services to about a two-hour journey time. Our fastest train to Cork currently takes two hours and 20 minutes and, as we improve journey times by improving the track and increasing speeds, the target time would be to get key business trains to a two-hour journey time between the two major cities of Dublin and Cork.

On the passive provision for electrification, anything we are doing in no way hinders the long-term view of electrifying the network. Anywhere we can make passive provision as we do this now, we keep a weather eye on the fact that, at some time in the future, we will electrify, and we may even raise line speeds further. Therefore, where we can make passive provision at no extra cost as we go through this, we are doing so.