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

The problem I have with that is that if we rely on that strategy in terms of where we prioritise investment, you will hit Blackpool in north Cork. While we could then build a northern distributor route in Cork so it gets around to Dunkettle, you basically would hit what we have already hit in Dublin. You hit an M50 syndrome, where the roads are at maximum capacity and you cannot get any more traffic on them. That is where we are in Dublin. In Dublin, we will face a really difficult retrofitting out of that problem because it physically cannot work. As you cannot add another strand of spaghetti to the Red Cow roundabout or another extra lane on the M50, we must reverse engines out from the place we entered. We do not need to do that in Limerick and Cork. At this stage, we could really say that we should put the money into the rail network, into the bus system and into high-quality housing close to the centre.