Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport
All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann
2:00 am
Ms Mary Considine:
To deal with the Deputy's first point, I probably did not make it clear enough with regard to the disruption. We will plan out the disruptive periods as part of planning the project. That would be normal. Every effort is made to do the really disruptive work over weekends or when people are not travelling or commuting for work. We are always very conscious of that customer need, so we try to build that into any programme.
In relation to capacity issues, I hear every day all around the country the issue of capacity constraints. One of the issues is that, even though we introduced - I alluded to this in my opening statement - 41 new carriages to the intercity services last year and capacity has grown, passenger growth has surpassed that. We are constrained-----
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