Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I also welcome the Minister of State back to the Seanad. He gets quite an amount of cross-party support simply because he is doing a good job. He is dealing with a difficult, technical and problematical situation. In the past, CIE's hallmark has not been solution driven, but it must be so in future.

I travel by public transport all the time. I travel to Dublin every week by train and I use the bus networks extensively. I would like to see more of my colleagues doing the same. We cannot preach about increasing passenger numbers if we do not use public transport ourselves. Each Member of the Oireachtas should, if possible even once a month, take the train to Dublin. It is a good service by and large and it runs on time. It is rarely late and it is comfortable. There is Wi-Fi on board and the coffee is quite good.