Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I gave the members a year of yapping about that. In all seriousness, there is no other project that is similar in scale to MetroLink and there is the demand that will be there from the second runway. New houses and apartments will be built in Swords through the Fosterstown development plan. Those householders will all have to transit out of the tow to work, school, college or whatever. That is why there has been, from me and from others, a fairly intense reaction to what we see as a step back in commitment to this project. From what the Minister said there, I take some encouragement. It would be easy for me to politically say I do not take any encouragement and this is terrible. He is still committed to it, albeit that the railway order process, the planning, the legal challenges, etc., are issues he cannot account for.