Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I believe the Chairman and I have cracked the Irish Rail algorithm, in that we know how to get the tickets booked on time and cheaply. I am on a €14 fare home today and it will get me home lightning quick. However, if I try to book for my wife and three children to go to Dublin for a day in the zoo, a rite of passage for every Irish family, it is €150 return. For the same money I could travel from Amsterdam to Munich on a night train, and there would even be beds for us on that train, or I could get a Ryanair flight from Shannon and fly to many airports around western Europe with my family. I know this is not all in his control but does it concern Mr. Meade that Irish Rail is out-pricing itself in terms of competitors and bus operators?