Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)

In the minute and a half I have left, I want to talk about car parking at stations. I parked at Limerick station yesterday and got the train. I meet the same cohort of people every day and if they are lucky, they have a parking space, but more often than not, spaces are taken up by people who are going to work in the city or shopping in town because the parking rate seems to be cheaper than in the city car parks. The upshot of that is many people from Clare, Limerick and north Cork who are trying to get trains in the morning drive in a quarter of an hour before the train to park, have to do circles of the car park and can get no parking spaces. They are either clamped by the company, have to park out on the street or get parking tickets. Are there any plans for this?

The parking charge in that car park, and indeed in most of the car parks, was nearly doubled in the past three months by APCOA, the contractor that runs them. Has that additional revenue gone to Irish Rail or to APCOA? The charge has gone from €3.50 for a 24-hour period to €6.

In that car park, a camper van has been abandoned for about five weeks. I actually made a 999 call about it because I park up beside it every day and thought it was not right and wondered whether the welfare of the owner had even been checked. The camper van is still there. It is not deemed to be suspicious but it is taking up a parking space and people cannot use it every day. Will Ms Considine ask the station management to tow the camper van from the facility please?