asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if, in view of the approach of another tourist season and of the very unfavourable impression created in the past and still being created by the deplorable arrangements made for the carriage of passengers from Carlisle Pier to West-land Row, he will take immediate steps to see that a comfortable train with proper facilities will be provided.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Improvement of Boat Train.
As I intimated in a reply in Dáil Éireann to a similar question by the Deputy on the 4th August last, Córas Iompair Éireann are anxious to improve the rolling stock used on the service to which the Deputy refers as soon as it will be practicable to do so. I understand that it has not been possible to make as much progress as the company would have wished to make, but I am taking the matter up with them with a view to seeing what improvements can be effected before, or during, the coming tourist season.
Is this to facilitate the "flight of the locusts", as one of the Ministers described tourists a couple of years ago?
He will not miss the particular train that is going out there anyway.