Ms Anne Graham:

The issue of safety of the passengers and the volume of passengers is assessed by Irish Rail. The trains are designed for standing passengers. Generally, it is considered that there would be some standing passengers on some of those services. It is not ideal, and it is our preference to reduce the number of standing passengers on those services. A number of commuter services also serve those inner parts of the city. It might just be a timing issue. Those services are probably followed fairly quickly by a commuter service that can cover much of that capacity. As the Deputy knows, 41 ICRs are being introduced to the fleet and more fleet is being manufactured as part of the DART+ programme, in particular to try to build the capacity on the commuter services. This will allow other fleet to be introduced to the intercity services as well.