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 give some assurance to the Deputy, once the new DART+ fleet starts to come into service in quarter 2 of 2027, which is the programme we have now agreed with the supplier, they will start to come in very quickly. It should not be 2028. We should be able to immediately start to free up sets there to put additional capacity on those intercity routes and those routes where capacity is most badly needed. In the short term, however - again I am going to preface that I am new into the role so I do not know all the details - my understanding, certainly from talking to colleagues over the last number of weeks, is that there is a real constraint with fleet, so I could not make any commitment beyond that.
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