Part of 3. Topical Questions – in the Senedd at 3:14 pm on 15 June 2022.
Thank you for that explanation, Minister. I understand the flights have been costly and agree with your reasoning for not restarting the service. I welcome that the millions of pounds saved by cancelling these flights will be invested into connectivity in north Wales, both digital, through the excellent digital signal processing centre in Bangor, and the roll-out of the pilots in Anglesey of broadband and transport. I know the Minister will be concerned, as I was, to see the horrendous overcrowding on trains from north to south Wales over the weekend, which shows that additional carriages, the ones that are on order to improve the service, are needed urgently. We need four carriages on that service. Sometimes we have four carriages. Very often it's the two-carriage service, which isn't enough any more. Will the Minister give an update regarding when the new trains and carriages will be operating on that service? Thank you.