Mr. Garret Doocey:

I thank the Deputy. It feels like these train carriages have been promised to every part of the country at this stage. There is an issue with capacity pressures across the entire rail line and we went through it earlier with a number of other interventions from Deputies. We have had the injection of the 41 carriages into the intercity rail, ICR, fleet, which would have benefited the Galway line in more recent years.

We are awaiting the introduction of these new carriages, the DART+ fleet order, which is 185 carriages. That is a hugely significant order. They are coming through testing and there have been issues with the testing. We are dependent upon those carriages entering into service to allow a cascade of fleet and re-evaluation of where fleet is best applied across the network. That is the reality of it.