Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. David Franks:

I would love to be able to give a timeline on the Enterprise service and we are working very closely with Translink. We recently set up a shadow board with it to try to improve the Enterprise service. We are currently working on the business case for this and it will require additional rolling stock. We have been looking to see if we could introduce some additional services in the early morning and evening as well. We are looking at all opportunities. An issue that has frustrated the process a little is the Brexit position because we had assumed we could secure some European funding for this but we must now consider that the element will potentially be taken from the business case. All that work is under way. Perhaps I could update the committee once the business case has been taken a stage further.