Mr. Jeremy Ryan:

At the moment, in towns where we have a flat fare, it is €1.50. We are examining the boundaries of that to see whether we will introduce that fare for both a service going through towns, where people get on and off, and the dedicated town services themselves. There is a bit of work to be done in that regard.

With regard to fares outsides of towns and in the rest of rural Ireland, as the Deputy will know from the fares strategy, we are looking at an distance-based, as-the-crow-flies approach to setting fares between point A and point B. That will take a bit longer. It will probably be into 2027 or 2028 before we look at that. As I said, work is under way on how we will introduce that.