Mr. Tom O'Mahony:

There are a couple of dimensions to that question. One is having more public transport options in place. Given the cutback in expenditure in recent years, projects such as the DART underground and metro have had to be put on hold. However, the Luas cross-city project is being developed at present. Working with the public transport system, there is much that can be done and has been done in the past two or three years to make it a more attractive alternative for the customer. The impact of the Leap card and the real time passenger information has exceeded expectations. In April 2014, the 500,000th Leap card was sold, which was way ahead of the targets set.

As the committee is probably aware, new initiatives are being rolled out almost on a monthly such as fare capping. Today a tourist Leap card will be announced. The idea behind the initiative is that one will eventually be able to know that public transport will not cost above a certain amount. Even if one must use a train to travel part of the journey and then a bus, or whatever, one will have a daily and weekly limit, etc. The realtime passenger information service has put people in a situation-----