The Minister should not run down the public transport system or set completely unfeasible targets based solely on economic considerations. Privatisation and public private partnerships are short-sighted approaches. Our railways are not a private service. Senator Minihan compared rail with private businesses. It is not a private business, but a public, social service which is far too important to be treated as a private entity. That is not to say CIE does not deserve a kick to get it going and provide imaginative responses to our needs or that its structures do not need to be reviewed. Nevertheless, rail is a public service and the buck stops with the Minister.