Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to return to the metro design. When the consultants were appointed to design the metro, were they given a straight line and told to come up with a design or were they given terms of reference, such as minimising disruption to existing traffic? Surely before consultants were appointed, someone in the NTA must have proposed putting in place a new metro service but that it would be done by trying not to disrupt existing operators, such as the Luas. Why are we having to go back to the drawing board? We should not have to go back to the drawing board. This should have been anticipated.

I refer to the Dunkettle interchange works in Cork, at the M8. Has there been an overrun in spending in the initial site investigation and clearance works? It is already behind schedule by four to six months. Was the overrun because the tendering process was not properly scrutinised?

What measures are being taken to advance increased availability of driver testers for learner drivers? The waiting lists are not coming down at all - indeed, they have got worse following the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act. What is being done to facilitate learner drivers? People are losing their jobs because they cannot get to work and they have no one to bring them.