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

There is no ideological block. Everything must be based on good engineering, science and public policy. We work collectively in government to deliver that and we can. One thing we can agree on is the over-development of Dublin. The vast majority of air travel goes in and out of Dublin Airport. The vast majority of roll-on, roll-off trucks go in and out of Dublin Port. All of them then drive down the country with goods and drive back empty.

All of the places in between suffer from all of that through traffic, including Dublin. So the current imbalanced form of national development has to change and that is why the national planning framework is our guide.