Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 May 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority

9:30 am

Mr. Hugh Creegan:

I know the Deputy is aware of some of this. A couple of projects are advancing to address this, and they will ultimately provide a much better service on that line, certainly as far as Wicklow. There will potentially be a different arrangement south of that. As the Deputy is aware, as part of the DART+ programme, there is a plan to try to get three DARTs an hour to Greystones. At the moment, it is limited to two an hour. Even more significantly, the intention is to extend one of those DARTs per hour to run to Wicklow town on a battery basis. That project is advancing with Irish Rail. It is a couple of years from completion. The fleet has been ordered and that has the potential of coming in a few years.