Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is right. I had a meeting with representatives of the NTA yesterday and this issue was among the topics discussed. There are complications. The real difficulty is that we do not have the same facilities in our train stations as we have at Luas stops, where people can tag on and tag off. That makes it difficult to introduce a scheme, which we want to do, where it is not expected that people will be commuting five days a week. Therefore, we continue to look at the options. It is complex and difficult because of the architecture of some of our ticketing system. As soon as the NTA has a solution to that issue, I will come straight into the House to inform the Members because this is something we want to try to deliver.

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