Mr. Jim Meade:

Somewhere in the 30s of the 41 ICRs are now in service. Over the next month or six weeks, they will all be in service. For clarity, they allowed us to add carriages to existing train sets. In total, there are 27 longer trains out there on the network than was previously the case. All the five-car trains are going to six cars, some four-car trains are going to six cars and some three-car trains are going to four cars. We are adding in capacity on trains. I do not know off the top of my head where they all went but I think some capacity has gone onto the Deputy's route. Galway is a good example of what we have achieved. Not only did we put extra carriages on that route, we also put on an extra service. We are only six weeks in and it is already full. The trains were really heaving before that on the Galway route.

We are putting on extra services and extra capacity but the real issue is that we are seeing growth in excess of what the 41 extra cars can give us. The capacity study for Wicklow is finished and will be published imminently. DART+ Coastal South will help us to expand the services on a corridor that, as the Deputy rightly said, needs expansion. People are standing in the carriages. Some of the second new fleet is earmarked for that corridor. The first 95 cars of the Alstom fleet order will start being delivered into service from early 2026. The good thing about the way we have it structured is that while we are a little delayed with the first train coming in, the whole programme is still on target. By mid-2026, we will have all the first order delivered and in service. We will then go straight into delivering the second order of another 18 train sets. They will go into service over the second half of 2026 and early 2027. Some of them are earmarked to enhance the capacity on the Wicklow services.