Cecilia Keaveney (Fianna Fail)

I acknowledge that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Micheál Martin, has allowed people from the North of Ireland applying for a passport to call their place of birth Londonderry or Derry, with Doire being the Irish language version. I renew the call I made last week for other Departments, in particular Deputy Eamon Ryan's Department which has responsibility for the ordnance survey maps of Ireland, to consider this in the same vein and afford the same understanding, tolerance and mutual respect to putting Derry on the map. At present, the ordnance maps of Ireland have Londonderry and Doire but not Derry. As someone born in Derry I would like to see us back on the map.

The Translink train service between Dublin and Belfast was co-funded with European funding. It is a beautiful project which is a good example of cross-Border co-operation. If I buy a return ticket in Dublin it costs €55. If I buy a return ticket in Belfast it costs £36. In Belfast I was told that the rate of exchange used is €0.69 and that the same rate of exchange is used for tea or coffee on the train. When I queried when this would be reviewed I was told it was not a bureau de change but a train station. When I asked for a sterling rate at Connolly Station in Dublin I was told it was impossible to give a sterling rate because it was a train station and not a bureau de change. Iarnród Éireann and the Northern authorities are exploiting passengers and I ask for this to be investigated and stopped. I brought it to the attention of the consumer affairs agencies but to date I have had no satisfaction. The euro has been worth 90p for the past number of months. I do not expect the rate of the day but I expect a better rate than 69 cent.