I have no patience with ideological agendas being inserted into this debate, even if it is the ideological agenda of, for example, public sector transport employees. I recently attended my first Labour Party national conference. At the time I was the party's transport spokesperson in this House. During the conference I had the usual meeting with the CIE group of unions. I have a strongly developed view on public transport and was looking forward to a dialogue with them. They told me, however, that the first thing they needed was a price increase. They could only say that because they knew they had an effective monopoly. If they were involved in Senator Quinn's business, for example, and demanding an increase in prices, the immediate response would have been that Dunnes would undercut them and they would lose their jobs.