Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Based on the Iarnród Éireann timetable, a number of lines still have two services a day each way. There are a number which have four or five services each way without enormous conglomerations, although if we take Waterford to Limerick the biggest inland town, Clonmel, is on that route. There is also Carrick-on-Suir and a number of other towns. With the same population when frequency is increased from, for example, three to five is there inevitably a dramatic growth in passenger numbers? If the service goes from five to ten, with the same infrastructure but more frequent service is the experience that the greater the frequency the more passengers, not only on the new services but also on the existing services because there is better choice?