Mr. Jim Meade:

Whatever works for the committee will work for us. We will make it happen. All anyone who has been to see it has said when they came out was "Wow, we did not realise what you were doing".

To go back to the Deputy's substantive question, it will be one source of the truth for everything to do with the railway. Customer services is there, as is all the activity of managing and manoeuvring trains. All the signalling locations around the country will come back in there. All train activities will be managed from there. The contract for it was signed a few weeks before Covid-19 hit us. We had to stand back and re-design how we would deliver it. We delivered the building a few weeks late. We added a floor for An Garda Síochána because it needed to get out of Harcourt Street. An Garda Síochána is now on the third floor. Its call centre for Dublin is there, which is another state-of-the-art centre. It is a demonstration of great collaboration between the OPW, the NTA, ourselves and An Garda Síochána and shows how State agencies can work together. That facility is a multigenerational facility.