John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I feel I am in some kind of rural-urban thing. We are spending €9 million on a rural transport system. We spent €200 million on an urban transport project that may never materialise. The Chairman's question is relevant. All one needs to do is take those two figures to put everything in context. I am reminded of the debate on blood alcohol limits. When a public representative from an urban area of my constituency was asked what people who lived in rural areas were going to do as a result of the reduction in the blood alcohol limit he suggested that they could take taxis. That sums up the lack of knowledge that exists about rural areas and the lack of transport links.

I am not an expert on the issue of carriages and I have not done a great deal of digging into the ins and out of it. Who is Jacobs Engineering and why did the authority select that company to carry out the analysis?