James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is okay, this is interesting. This is part and parcel of the lack of joined-up thinking between the Department of Transport and the independent State agencies working with it that is making it really hard for all of the bodies involved to get the work done. The simple exercise of connecting Dublin Airport via the DART such that we would have a rail connection to Dublin Airport could be done by way of railway order within a relatively short space of time. This is not being looked at despite that it is glaringly obvious how useful that could be for people across the country. For example, the Chairman and I could board the train at Limerick Junction and on arrival at Dublin Heuston we would be able to connect via the Luas to the DART at Connolly Station, which would then take us to Dublin Airport.