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

While I agree with the Chairman about the requirement for road safety, if we look at a lot of motorways we have built, we have built for inter-urban journeys. We have built capacity for about 80,000 vehicles per day and even as we speak, on the inter-points from Waterford to Dublin, there are probably only about 5,000 to 10,000 journeys per day so we have actually provided eight or ten times the capacity. At a time when resources are constrained and when there is going to be real pressure for us to build out these railway stations in Limerick, as once we start and put it into Moyross, they will want it in Ballysimon and Dooradoyle-----