Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I just want to add to Deputy Murphy's remarks. Perhaps circumstances are changing and there is a need for more planning or whatever but we have legislative powers. Section 181(2)(a) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 empowers the Minister to gazump the law in an emergency, but when is an emergency an emergency? There is no doubt that if we want to continue to obsess about covering one's ass, for want of a better expression, we will never get anything done. If a business case is done and a decision made, that is the leadership we look for from the Executive, yet we are going around in circles when it comes to commuters. This does not even relate to my constituency but to that of Deputy Murphy and others.