Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The measure of spending per passenger journey is totally inequitable. It would be much better to start on the basis that there are a half a million people in Connacht and a million people in Dublin. Is the subsidy for public transport in Connacht half of that in Dublin? It is not. It is about a tenth. Of course the NTA is always going to win by measuring per passenger journey, because the people who do not have the service cannot use it and therefore are never subsidised. It is a crazy measure.