Grace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)

I appreciate all the detail Mr. Creegan provided. I will continue to advocate for the people of Balbriggan and Skerries. If we are telling them the fares are fair, they need to be fair. They should not be paying the same to travel to Drogheda as someone who is travelling from Dublin Pearse Station.

In the short time I have left I also want to mention the payment system. Mr. Creegan mentioned the ticket payment system. I would very much like to hear what the NTA's plans are for the payments system. A new payments system has been in gestation for quite some time. We need to be a modern city and country and be able to accept contactless payments or have some kind of electronic wallet. Whatever is rolled out, I very strongly encourage Mr. Creegan to make sure that we get value for money, that it is a modern system and that we look at other European cities to see what is best in class. I stress value for money because I am conscious of spiralling IT projects right across the public service.