Mr. Hugh Creegan:

I do not agree with the way the Senator phrased certain things there. I accept that people in Balbriggan and Skerries are now in zone 2 and that their fares have gone up a bit. I also recognise that people in Gormanston and Drogheda have seen their fares go down. What we have tried to do is to put in a fair system that is equitable for everyone. If we were to extend zone 1 for Skerries and Balbriggan - and the Senator will have seen the circles that define the zones on the map, and we would then have to create a pimple on the map there - Greystones and other places would then want to move too. We would end up with an inequitable system again. There is a rationale-----