Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)

I thank the Minister. Yesterday, we saw really good news from CIE about increased passengers numbers across Dublin Bus, Irish Rail and Bus Éireann as well. We are seeing a steady increase in passenger numbers. The Minister has referred to it already. Has his Department done any work in terms of analysing the impact the fare reductions we have seen over the last number of years have had? I am talking about the 20% reduction for everybody, the 50% young adult travel card and the five to eight year old free travel that is coming in soon. Has the Minister got any sense of how big an impact that has on people's decision to start taking up public transport? In light of that, is he proposing to look at further fare reductions over the next number of years to continue that positive trend in passenger numbers?