Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for extending me some latitude. I understand there has been a budgetary overrun on the national train control centre. Where is it at and who is picking up the tab? All of us here have a rudimentary knowledge of what is going on. The old points levers are well and truly gone. We have an automated system. For the laypeople, and we are laypeople, - I certainly do not have an engineering background - what efficiencies will the facility bring when it opens and at what cost? Are there safety issues? Will providing this infrastructure get us to the point we have all been talking about, with perhaps more night trains and the passing lines. Will it co-ordinate all of that? We would love to know a little more about it.