John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The incremental supports needed for any rail line to wash its face seem to have come in a piecemeal fashion, as witnesses have indicated. In the meantime, there are reporters scrutinising the services who give figures for sections rather than the total picture. Putting the information we have received today alongside what the public may have read in newspapers over the past three or four years - we have even seen "Prime Time" reports on this - it seems that the wrong spin is being put on this. It is important because we have the opportunity to balance the information.