Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It allows the management to resonate with staff within the organisation, so well done.

I have quite a number of points and I want to go through them nice and quickly if that is possible. On that 6.40 a.m. train there were three carriages, A, B and C. It was lovely and quiet until we got beyond Thurles. Then we picked up in Ballybrophy. There were stops in Portlaoise and Portarlington. It becomes chaotic every morning the further up the line one goes because people are using the train to get in to Dublin for the 9 o'clock work start. It is lovely and quiet leaving Limerick and into Tipperary and then it turns to mayhem. It is devastating then when one pulls into Heuston station and sees carriages parked up around the yard. I am wondering why that train cannot have five or six carriages. There were people standing, not just at the end of carriages, but holding onto chairs and tables for an hour or an hour and a half as they made their way to Dublin. All I am asking is that Irish Rail please consider putting additional carriages on those early morning services.