Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The frequency of trains is one of the main issues people have a difficulty with, not least in the case of late-night or late-evening trains. Are there ambitions to do that throughout the State and when will that happen? What happened in early December was clearly welcome but an awful lot of the trains, even from the west, which has a poor enough service some of the time, are very overcrowded and do not have the frequency people require. Will double-tracking be needed on some of those tracks to bring them up to the standard we need?