Louis O'Hara (Galway East, Sinn Fein)

I understand the NTA has a role in the allocation of rail stock. Capacity on rail services is a concern on a lot of the regional routes. I wrote to the NTA about this recently. I raised these issues with Irish Rail, which noted that allocation of additional rail carriages is the responsibility of the NTA. The additional DART+ carriages are coming onto the system and I understand that will allow some of the diesel carriages to be transferred onto regional routes. It is an issue at the moment because that is dependent on testing and so on, but we have a serious issue with overcrowding in the interim on many services. Is the NTA looking at finding a solution to that in the interim?