Mr. Hugh Creegan:

The fare system before we brought in the change was a legacy system dating back decades and there were all sorts of inequities in it. We believe we have put, to pardon the pun, a fairer system in place now. We have tried to do it on a revenue-neutral basis. We did not get any extra funding so there have been pluses and minuses. Lots of people got pluses while some people have got minuses. We accept that the increase in the child fare from 65 cent to €1.95 referred to by the Deputy is a significant increase. By September, we should have a product on the Leap card that will be a weekly child fare, which will be at a much lower level than it currently is. It is currently €16. We will bring it well down. This should prove quite attractive to people sending children to school and, hopefully, alleviate some of those concerns.