Mr. Jim Meade:

Anyone who uses Heuston Station, like Deputy Crowe does, will see the lovely building on the left as they approach with our name up in lights, namely, the NTCC. It is a piece of national infrastructure that was built during the Covid-19 pandemic. What will it be? All the signalling of all trains across the network will come into one centre. It is a state-of-the-art centre. When it opens in quarter 3 of 2025, it will be the most modern in Europe. We are taking a massive leap in technology. It is cloud based. I probably should have put this into my opening statement. It would be good for the committee to come and have a look. We talk a lot about investment and what we can and cannot deliver, but it would bring the documents to life. I extend an invitation to the committee to come and see the national train control centre if it suited some time. All that happens anyone who comes in there------