Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. The Green Party transport policy from April 2021 refers to short-term actions to be done within 12 months. One is to "Make public transport free for all students (up to and including 3rd level) ...". It is now 34 months later and students are still paying for public transport. What I took from the Minister's answer, as well as recent reporting in the Irish Examineris that there is no intention to further reduce fares and certainly no intention to move towards non-commodified public transport for young people, or at least students. This would make it much easier for people to take public transport, make it something everybody can do and assist in shifting people out of cars onto public transport, which is one of the crucial things we need to do.

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