Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The integrated ticket will help public transport users to reduce their transport costs, in particular, those who use public transport on a regular basis, which is the example cited by Deputy Ross.

On the National Transport Authority, the Deputy cannot have it both ways. He cannot argue on one day that the Government should not politically interfere, intervene or micro-manage the work of commercial State companies or individual State agencies and then the next day tell the Government he wants it to direct such agencies.

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