Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Surely there must be some evaluation of the way public transport is impeded in achieving the times it would like to achieve. Surely there are figures on productivity among the business community and the hours spent in traffic as opposed to working productively. Surely there is a mechanism for calculating those statistics when doing a cost-benefit analysis to make an investment in public transport, for example. Is this done?