Seán Haughey (Dublin Bay North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. The Minister will be aware of customers who purchased an annual commuter TaxSaver ticket for 2020 and were subsequently provided with an extension of it to the middle of 2021. As I understand it, no further extension is being provided in 2021. Many of those commuters have continued working from home to date in 2021 and have not availed of the six-month extension.

I know of one person, for example, who paid for a full 2020 ticket, availed of the extension when it was offered last August clearly not expecting that lockdown would go on for so long and has yet to work in the office in 2021. If people return following public health guidance, they could be paying the cost of an 18-month commuter ticket while not even using it for that period. Current advice is still to work from home. Surely these people will now be provided with an extension to the end of 2021.

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