Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The most immediate matter is the deployment of those ICRs. That will happen next year, as I said, and I will look for them to be deployed as quickly as possible.

We have a budget issue in that we have so many different new public transport services to be put in place that we have to make sure we have the budget allocation for all of them. I am confident we can do that.

Iarnród Éireann is best placed, with the NTA, to look at where the locations where we have the most constraint and capacity issues are. I am confident that some of the Kildare services to which the Deputy referred already have very high patronage and that we will deliver in that regard.

The bigger, more medium-term issue is that we await planning decisions from An Bord Pleanála on both DART+ West and DART+ South West, but I am hopeful decisions on both will come in the new year. The really big job is the major upgrade of the DART service and the new terminal to the west of Maynooth, which will be the real game-changer. In the interim, the ICRs will start rolling out next year.

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