Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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On the question of rail capacity which was raised in Ms Graham's opening statement, she mentioned a two-year interim arrangement and a five-year lead-in from order to delivery.

I presume there is calibration and all sorts of stuff that happens after that. There are significant capacity issues at peak times in particular. I refer to that 24 month period. Has an order gone in or is that something that is still being considered? Where are we with that?