Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would suggest that it did not. I can tell the Minister that it was not very fast for the people who were on the front line dealing with this issue solidly for the past week or indeed for the passengers who had to endure it. I have never said that the Minister should micromanage the service, but presumably as the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport he has a role when the national rail operator puts forward an improvement in the service, bringing more DARTs but smaller carriages and more frequency but less space for people. He agrees that there is a problem, as he said in his introduction. There is a problem with capacity, not on the south side of Dublin but on the north side. What is he doing to address that problem more expediently?

This is the area where we expect growth. Taking Portmarnock as an example, 1,000 new houses are due in the next year alone. Many more thousands are planned in the immediate future. These are the people the Taoiseach loves, the people who get up in the morning to stand in Portmarnock DART station as the trains go by them, or to be mashed in, with pregnant women and children standing the whole way into town. It is unacceptable and the Minister should be doing a hell of a lot more on it.

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