Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion

Ms Anne Graham:

I am going to respond to the Deputy on that if it is okay.

On the commuter fares, the 90-minute fare was introduced at the end of last year. It was a very significant change in the Dublin fares. It was pitched at €2.30 at that time as a reduction. It will be €2.50 normally. However, with the Government's introduction of the 20% reduction that is now going to be €2 from this weekend. That represents really good value. It calls into question whether there is value associated with taxsaver in some cases, depending on what number of journeys you are now doing as a commuter. The value is in that 90-minute ticket and would allow you to use all modes for that price. Beside that, the taxsaver tickets have also been subject to the 20% reduction in fares introduced on 1 April. Existing taxsaver users have an extension if they bought their ticket earlier this year. They get a three-month extension. As I said earlier, that is to allow us a bit of time to see if we can find a solution, which is not easily done on the infrastructure we have, that allows for a two-day or three-day type taxsaver ticket. That is not available at the moment and we are finding it difficult to be able to provide that, especially on the rail services where we need a facility to be able to decrement a day's travel on an annual ticket. It is difficult to do with technology we have.

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