Mr. Jim Meade:

How do we sweat the assets? We just try to run them more. What catches people out sometimes is that there is a return leg on everything. If we run a train to Cork, we have to get it back in order to have it somewhere else. For example, we are running an extra service to Cork, but that means we have taken a train, we are running it down earlier and running it back, and we are taking out some of our resilience. If we have a failure now in Cork, where anything happens to any of the early morning trains, we have to start back-pedalling straight away. We do not have any capacity to drop in another train to rescue that service. It is about running the existing fleet so we have more, while recognising that it has to work into a linking system. If we have a spare train at Heuston, we can run it to Galway, but then where is its next leg? Where was it supposed to go? Can it get to Galway and back before it does the journey we want it to do? That is what we do when we sweat the asset.