Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Once again, I am coming a distance with the Minister, which is that I agreed to the bypass. I am also coming a distance with him in that we need to build up the cities, but for whatever reason the Minister has an ideological position whereby he will come out against something that might be good. He deliberately did so on the northern distributor road earlier. The LSMATS plan may show that it will be required. What the Minister is forgetting is that the northern distributor road could have buses and public transport on it, which would make the lives of people living in the area infinitely better. The fundamental point is that I do not see rail, public transport and roads as being mutually exclusive.