Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the reply. There is a lot in the report and I will finish with a question about design because I know that is important but I want to home in on the safety aspects. I love the train. I take it three or four times a week to get from Clare to Dublin. I love it, but I have also seen some hairy episodes, examples of illegal, criminal and thuggish behaviour. People who should be able to enjoy their journeys cannot do so because of how some others conduct themselves on the train. I do not have strong views on the serving of alcohol on trains but events of recent months have probably strengthened my views in that regard.

I note that Ms Fox is on the design end of things. I will ask her a broad question about parking in railway stations and, indeed, in the entire public realm. The policy guidance in Ireland on parking spaces is that they should be approximately 2.5 m wide and 4.75 m long. Parking spaces in Ireland tend to be tighter and shorter than in most other European countries and north America. I have six-, five- and three-year-old children so we are moving out of the time when we need mother-and-baby or mother-and-toddler parking spaces. We will be parking in the general body of car parks. It is nigh on impossible to get children out of a car parking space without obliterating the side of the next car. I have often seen parents dropping off their kids before reversing into a space. God help anyone who parked at the front or rear of Leinster House this morning. You would want to be a very skinny person or you would want to get out of the car and roll it back into the space, àlaMr. Bean. Does Ms Fox agree that parking spaces are too tight and too short? Should the guidance change to bring Ireland more in line with other countries?