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

Yes, but to finish my point, Dublin Port needs to change. We have an issue with excessive development on the east coast. The vast majority of the roll-on, roll-off traffic comes into the centre of Dublin and goes onto the M50 which cannot take further traffic. It is an area of the city with major potential for, as Deputy Leddin said, transport-led development and good, compact development close to the city centre. There is a strategic question of whether we just see Dublin Port continue to grow, advance and dominate our transport system without effective rail freight connectivity. The port has one train per week, I think, coming in from Tara mines. It is infrequent. Integration of what happens in Dublin, Rosslare, Cork, Waterford and Shannon Foynes ports into a new transport haulage systems is significant and urgent. Little attention is given, including by our port agencies, to the scale of change needed. I will focus on that in the coming months.