Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We all pay the tax dollars. I pay the same tax as my colleagues up here. Rural taxpayers are entitled to services too but we do not get sewage services or bus services. I mean no disrespect to the witness but it seems to me that it is the Dublin transport authority and not the National Transport Authority.

I will move on because the Chairman is getting very impatient with me. Has the NTA commissioned a plan to look at the possibilities over the next 20 to 30 years for the provision of efficient commuter rails into the designated cities of Galway, Limerick and Waterford, which we know will grow rapidly, taking into account what I said in my first statement? I remember when Harcourt Street railway line was sold. Is the NTA developing such a long-term plan in order that we plan properly for the future?