James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry to interrupt, but my time is very limited. I have spoken for five minutes and 20 seconds and have only eight minutes in total. We have a chicken-and-egg scenario because somebody must make decisions about where to allocate resources and what is done to provide services. I am not being parochial by mentioning the N7. I only cited it because I am familiar with the route. The N7 is one of the busiest access routes into Dublin because it is used by people from Limerick, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Carlow, Waterford and many other places. There is not really a well-marketed service there except for the Luas at present. There are a lot of capacity constraints with the Luas in the mornings. The service is great if one can use it. I am of the view that there is a demand to have something a little further out in the direction of Citywest where people could park their cars, if they are on short journeys from rural areas, and transition to a public transport service. This would remove thousands of cars from Dublin city centre. Such an initiative would be of great benefit.