Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 1275: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been brought to the fact that due to limited fleet availability Iarnród Éireann is not in a position to provide additional services from Maynooth train station, County Kildare to the new Docklands station and that the only service to operate on the western rail corridor to this new station will be from Clonsilla on 12 March 2007; his views on the fact that this new station was included in Transport 21 and that commitments were given in relation to train services from Maynooth at 15 minute intervals during peak hours; the reason carriages are not available; the action he will take in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2984/07]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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I understand from Iarnród Éireann that the frequency of service on the Maynooth line has been increased substantially in recent years and that currently there are, for example, 5 trains from Maynooth between 07.22 and 08.15 in the morning peak to cater for peak demand from Maynooth. I am informed that the fastest area of growth on the Maynooth corridor is from Clonsilla inwards and that the new services to Docklands Station will be provided to cater for this increased demand which in turn will reduce pressure on the existing heavily loaded trains. These new services will commence in March 2007. Later in 2007 Iarnród Éireann plans to further increase the capacity of some of the existing Maynooth line services, through the reassignment of diesel railcars currently being used on the Sligo service following the entry into service of the first of the 150 new intercity railcars.