Ms Anne Graham:

It is not our decision, but our experience is that they make the decision whether to charge a free travel pass holder the normal fare or carry the passenger free. That is their decision. In respect of the subsidised service we provide, for example, from Cashel to Portlaoise, we had to charge a concessionary fare, half the adult fare, because we could not avail of extra funding from the Department of Social Protection. It was due to the cap on funding for the free travel scheme.