Rail Network
Dail Éireann — 2024-02-01
============================================================

Alan Farrell (FG), Dublin Fingal

I thank the Minister and agree with him on charging facilities, in particular in Drogheda. Have they entered, or are they about to enter, procurement?
I also agree about the turnaround time from delivery. That applies to non-electric carriages, that is, the intercity carriages that arrived recently. My understanding is that it took more than six months for them to be commissioned and introduced. As I said, however, on behalf of my own constituents in Donabate and beyond, it is so important that the timeline of this delivery is not allowed to slip because it is such an important component for transport options for people in the northern parts of Dublin, Meath and Louth into the years ahead. I very much look forward to ensuring that these battery electric trains are delivered and put into operation as quickly as possible.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2024-02-01/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:52:37+00:00
Sitting date: 2024-02-01