Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

When representatives of TII appeared before the committee, I asked them how many rail-based or bus-based projects it had ready to go to tender and the answer was zero. It has loads of road projects; we build roads with no problem. When it comes to transport projects we do not seem to be able to do it. Those projects would provide cross-city connectivity. Blanchardstown is one of them. When I talk to people behind the scenes, I get no sense of progress. We need to make political decisions. The block may be on the political side where people are not willing to make the tough calls on how we allocate road space. I get the sense that, at a political level, that is not happening and so it is not happening for the consumer at the end. If we are not going to tender, it means we are not getting something for four or five years because it takes two or three years even after the tender process to get it done. Therefore, it could take five or six years.