Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Select Committee on Transport

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised)

2:00 am

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)

No. The 41 intercity rail cars that I mentioned as now being in operation were in addition. What will happen is when electric carriages go on the other intercity and DART carriages, and on the northern commuter line, that will free up other rail cars to be moved to other lines. These will be additional, so it will increase our fleet by 185 carriages, or in that order. That will be an additional 185 because those other carriages will be moved from those lines to intercity lines. There are 41 additional intercity carriages in operation right now. There are still capacity issues, which the Deputy previously raised during oral questions, specifically with regard to certain trains turning up with two carriages at peak hours, as I recall. That is something I fed back to Iarnród Éireann. I know the Deputy continues to work on that. We need to see that capacity should be on the line where it is needed, especially at peak hours.

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