Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Ms Graham acknowledges that the NTA is not assessing the impact of these decisions in terms of the alternative modes of transport, whether it is bypassing Laytown and Gormanston and going to Balbriggan, which is a weakness. There could be a scenario where, with some movement in relation to price reductions, Irish Rail could break even or in fact make more because there would be more people on the service. However, we do not know because there is an information gap and it has not been tried.