Senator O'Rourke referred to the railway service, and particularly to rail freight, as the Cinderella of the transport industry. Perhaps that is true but I love travelling by train and I do it all the time. However, there are great variations between the different rail lines. I will go to Cork this weekend to talk at a charity auction and I shall take the Inter-city Gold service, which is absolutely delightful. I will have a pleasant meal, enjoy a view of the rolling countryside passing by and arrive refreshed and delighted in the second city of the Republic. However, if I were going to Limerick I would travel in luxury as far as Limerick Junction and then I would get on to a cattle train. The condition of this train is unbelievable. The windows are not even washed. Even if the company cannot afford to upgrade the infrastructure or buy new carriages it could at least keep the trains clean. They are heated in the summer but one cannot open the windows so one is boiled alive. In the winter one is frozen because the heating system which has worked all summer suddenly collapses and there seems to be no lavatory accommodation on the train. This does not encourage passengers. Irish Rail must provide good efficient passenger and freight services and must go out and market those services. Marketing is the key to the rail question.