Mr. Tim Gaston:

The cards cost about €3 each. There is, therefore, a cost to us in providing them. We ask everybody to put a deposit on the cards when they first buy them. That offsets the risk of them travelling further than the value on their Leap card would allow them to do. In reality, we have ended up with a slowly increasing sum in what we call the "dormant account". That is why we ran the campaign to try to encourage people to take back the money we were holding on their behalf.