Dan Boyle (Green Party)

——but in the medium term energy prices will increase. We must avoid situations where an energy provider like ESB can give a 3.5% wage increase when everyone else in society is not getting that. We must ask questions when average pay in an organisation like that is €76,000 per person. It is worth asking those questions and getting answers to them.

It is clear there has been an increase in the number of people using public transport in the Dublin area, particularly through the successful implementation of Luas and the extension of Luas that will take place in the short term. Dublin Bus has failed to address that. I refute the idea that there have been cuts in public transport. The State subvention to public transport is what it was always allocated to be. The cuts are within Dublin Bus itself because of declining income and a failure to manage effectively.