Emer Currie (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

No, but it has been flagged that there will be disruption and the sooner we get to the details of that, the better. When talking about the business case, that has to go hand in hand with it because people's lives continue and they want confidence that this is going to be managed in a way that avoids as much disruption as possible.

I have spoken about this next matter before. When the 41 new carriages were first announced, some of those were earmarked for the Maynooth line, which would benefit commuters in my constituency of Dublin West, but they have been reprioritised for the journeys going north to, I think, Drogheda. We have only benefited from four on the Sligo-Dublin route. When it comes to the 95 new carriages we were told were due in January 2026, 65 of those are also going to Drogheda and 30 to the existing DART line. When will the Maynooth line benefit from additional carriages? I can tell the witnesses now that we are overcrowded at peak times and we need more capacity.