Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I agree. That is why it is vital that we get the money for Connecting Ireland, the new rural bus systems we are going to put in place. It is also vital we put the first-up money from the European Regional Development Fund into Cork rail. We also need to get Dublin working, however. It is not Dublin versus Cork, Dublin versus Limerick or Cork versus Limerick. I am going on memory now; I cannot remember the exact source but I remember a call that was posited once that 70% of the tax revenue of the State is raised within 30 km of the General Post Office, GPO, and that money pays for everything else. It is not, therefore, one city versus the other or rural versus urban. That money will help us provide for the rural public transport services we need.