Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

In the international context, unattended stations and driver-only-operated transport systems developed as cost rationalisations by public transport companies to reduces the wages bill. Are they the norm throughout European rail and train systems, railway stations and light-rail systems, or are they starting to reverse that trend because of the benefits of doing so? More people might be attracted onto public transport if they feel safer, perhaps because it is not just a driver-operated system but there is the presence of somebody in a hi-vis jacket, even if it is just because of the perception of that. Is a reversal of that trend taking place?