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about where the train goes but what it is like to be on that train. That is why I am calling for quiet carriages on all intercounty trains. These carriages support our neurodiverse passengers and create a calmer space for people with anxiety, PTSD or sensory issues … rolled out across all lines. They are being considered for the Dublin to Belfast route. However, there are no plans to expand quiet carriages beyond that because of capacity concerns. Instead, passengers with sensory issues are being offered a pair of sunglasses, headphones and a fidget spinner. That

Connolly Station to Drogheda and the public will get to experience the first element of the DART+ programme with new battery electric DART carriages, which are currently undergoing testing and will go into service next year. These new carriages are significant not just because they will provide greater … mode of transport to the car. We have to make sure that, when we develop lines and add capacity, we also put the carriages in place to meet the demand. Previously, a Deputy on the other side of the House mentioned the Athenry to Galway line. The passing

Arklow or Gorey to Dublin there is a maximum of six services on any day and we are served by the worst rail carriages in the country. When I raised this recently with Iarnród Éireann, the promise for improving carriages was that, when it puts … carriages on all the other tracks, it will give whatever is left over to Rosslare. The problem is we are not seeing improvements to the M11. I raised this when Eamon Ryan was Minister for Transport. The M11 is the spine that runs through Wicklow and Wexford

extend the DART service to Wicklow town. I understand this extension can be facilitated through the utilisation of the new battery electric DART carriages, which are coming into service. Somebody else raised the issue of the Shannon Airport rail link. On the plans for a rail link … western region to develop as a rail network. We have a lot done. People are complaining that we do not have enough carriages now when 30 years ago we were closing down railway lines. We have got to a stage where the tipping point has been reached

pleased with a recent response from Irish Rail that told me the imminent DART+ fleet coming on stream would free up additional carriages. We are looking for an hourly service from Athy and also on the Waterford line. That would definitely benefit the huge increase in the population … State will consider that hourly service from Athy and other commuter towns along the Waterford line to Dublin and providing the additional carriages on the line to accommodate it. The demand is obvious from the petition I put up online recently. I hope the Government will give

customs authorities, provides that goods brought into the EU by sea or air, which remain on board the same means of transport for carriage, must be presented to customs only at the port or airport where they are unloaded or transhipped. However, goods brought into the EU which

glad to get the opportunity to ask the Minister of State to provide enough trains and carriages to bring the people from Kerry up to Dublin on Saturday and to bring them home. We are taking on Tyrone and we need our supporters there. We hope we will

Many Corkonians have happy memories of taking the train to Youghal on a summer day. The train might have 14 carriages but we would be lucky to get a seat on the train from Midleton. Sadly, the train service between Cork city and Youghal has not been

progress has been made and there is more to come. There will be decisions in the forthcoming period about electric carriages and where they will go. We want to make sure that they are everywhere. If they are delivered to Cork on time, it will ensure some

Dundalk and Drogheda. The Enterprise service has been increased and is so much of a success that we need more services and more carriages on the line because there is standing room only in the trains. We have to be very clear when we are implementing this review

reduce car journeys by half a million per day under the Government's climate action plan. In 2019, Irish Rail announced 41 new carriages but not one for the Wexford-Wicklow area. If you live in Gorey, there are only six services per day and the latest leaving

Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Transport the progress to date in enacting legislation to regulate horse drawn carriages in Dublin city centre. [42946/25

convert artillery towing Land Rovers from diesel to electric power; if such vehicles, if converted may be suitable for use in towing gun carriages at military funerals; if there are any other perceived advantages in such conversions, whether there are any further plans for such conversions of Defence

Transport if he will request the NTA/TII to review capacity levels on the DART service from Bray to Dublin city centre to ensure carriage numbers are sufficient given reports of overcrowding at peak times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35440/25