Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is it. Ms Hegarty mentioned the northern commuter belt. The northern commuter line, including at Skerries, is operating over-capacity. Where there is no investment in capital infrastructure for a sustained period and no new interconnector in the city, and where rail capacity cannot be increased to get people into the city, it presents an issue in that an increasing number of people are just shoved onto existing infrastructure. It is about balancing against the need for people to live somewhere and have homes. Politicians are the ones who have to accept, amend or reject the legislation. This is why it is very useful to hear all the points of view. Ultimately, as Deputy Casey said, if we were to establish an agency and capitalise it with €1.25 billion, effectively on a commercial semi-State basis, and if we were not happy there was proper oversight, the people would be asking us in ten years why we passed the legislation on the nod. That is why we have to tease all these things out.