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

That was set out in the programme for Government. There is a broader strategic point about where we are going. What do we make and sell? We make and sell very high-quality medical devices, biopharma, IT and financial services. That is what we make and sell. This is not necessarily shipped on heavy haulage. Most of the haulage we do is in importing goods. If we look at Limerick as a manufacturing and industry centre, it is not big bulk. It is high-value and high-quality. That is what we are brilliant at. It is centred around the skills of our people. In terms of developing cities and how we move people around, if we continue on a roads and private car-based system, it will not work. Forget about the climate side of it for a second. Let us look at the geometry of it. We can see it in Galway more than anywhere else. Everyone is trying to drive in and out of Parkmore, Ballybrit and other industrial estates. At a certain point, that reaches its limit of capacity. It is less so in Limerick because its traffic problem is not quite as bad as other cities but if everyone keeps driving to work and back, it will not work. Investors and business people want to see countries and cities with really good-quality public transport, particularly in respect of Limerick, Cork, Galway and Waterford.