John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Sorry, I am conscious of the time. I appreciate there is a broader, bigger piece of work being looked at. However, people need the investment here and now. Surely we do not need consultants to look into putting an additional couple of carriages at the end of a train that is going through the train stations on a daily basis. We do not need a broader, longer piece of work to do something as basic as putting a couple of additional carriages onto a train. People are voting with their feet. They are no longer taking that train and they are sitting in their cars on the N11 on tailbacks, which are getting longer on a daily basis, because of the failure of the NTA to put in basic investment into our rail infrastructure. This could be done straightaway.