Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Can the witnesses from their collective knowledge tell us whether there are countries that have experienced what we have experienced? Scotland's population has not increased and Italy's population is decreasing. Ireland's population has increased and will continue to increase because, as Mr. McCafferty has said, this country is empty. Have we learned from how other countries have dealt with a massive explosion in population? I agree with what he said about transport and we will pushing that aspect no end.