Mr. Barry Kenny:

When we ordered those carriages originally there was a lot of focus on commuter routes. Post Covid, the rapid growth came first on intercity routes, so there are more carriages on intercity routes than would have initially been envisaged, in terms of growth. Ultimately, in a perfect world we would never use these trains on commuter routes because they have that single door at either end and are slower to load and unload. However, they were a solution while the DART+ fleet is being awaited. There would be more of the carriages on the intercity routes such as Galway, which was mentioned as being extremely busy, but they are generally in our system. We will get the figure for the Senator but it would not be to that level.