Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The witnesses spoke about their professional experience of other jurisdictions in rolling out rail projects. We have been talking about metro in Dublin since 1971 when it was first proposed by An Foras Forbartha. Some 50 years later, we are still talking about it. While it is about to go to planning - or so we believe - these are the difficulties we have in this jurisdiction. I do not have time to talk about DART expansion north and west. What are the witnesses' views on this and the difficulties that we have in actually delivering on these ambitions?