Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I accept that. I am conscious of it. I have been here since 1.30 p.m. I was actually here at 1 p.m. for the private meeting. The topic is particularly relevant for me. I thank the Dublin Commuter Coalition. I could engage with it for 20 minutes and maybe I will do that but not here.

I just want to make a couple of points. I would love to come back on where DRT is going. There is scope for park and ride in places such as the racecourses in Leopardstown and Punchestown. The car parks are already there. Except for the odd day when there is racing there is much scope to use existing park-and-ride spaces, including in built-up urban areas and outside them.

I am delighted with the Dublin Commuter Coalition. I thought that I was fighting a lone battle regarding the upgrade of the metro to Sandyford. Thankfully, I have found others who have not decided that that would be a terrible thing but it is positive. As someone who lives very close to the Dundrum stop, I know that the amount of development in Dundrum, Sandyford and even out to Cherrywood is enormous, and an upgrade is really needed.

I had a point about network design, but that is not something that Dublin Bus does. The NTA does the network design and it operates the network designed by them.