Pat Gallagher (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

As I outlined, we expect the report of the integrated ticketing project board to be made available to the Minister by the end of this month. There are genuine business issues in terms of the cost of the project and the phased timing of its introduction. On the question of implementation, we must, as always, abide by the procurement policies. Although it sounds simple, the development of the system is rather involved and its design and implementation must take account of such issues as how the revenue from each card should be distributed to the various providers. After all these issues are resolved, it will take a period of two years to develop the system. That is normal in projects such as this where we must go through the correct procedures.

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