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

There is no block on anything. A future Government can change our decisions so there is never any block on anything. There is a budget constraint and it is very real in the next four years, particularly when it comes to road development. We have to be upfront and honest in that. The reason that there is a constraint is because for too long we forgot about public transport, we did not give it priority and we did not build rail in Limerick, we had it sit in front of us as an under-used network and we were shutting services down. I do believe that it is time to really push that. It is not blocking anything else but it is opening up.