Ms Marie Casserly:

I do not know what else is needed. He is the Minister for Transport. As Deputy Cannon said, all the reports have stated this. People were contracted to question people and make submissions and all these reports are valid. How much more validation and how many more reports do we need before politicians start to take this seriously? I am almost embarrassed as a politician. We have mums and dads. I have been contacted by people in Mayo asking why. They do not understand and do not want to know anything about this report and that report. All they want is something for their children. They want to keep their children here and want to have an option for their children to return. That is all they are asking for. They hear politicians answering and lose complete faith in the whole lot of us when this kind of argument is going on. As Mr. Quinn said, I will not be back here in ten or 20 years listening to this. None of us will be. It will be someone else.

As Deputy Cannon said, we will be holding up our hands saying we could not do anything about it. There has to be a will. As politicians, we have to listen. We are the servants of the people who elect us. It is not the other way around. The people are asking for this. The 27,000 who signed the petition were mentioned. There is another 50,000 or 60,000 who want this. It is not quantifiable. Why are they not allowed to have their say? Why are they not allowed to have this small piece of infrastructure that will change an entire region, not a little town? They are the towns that have been decimated over decades. Deputy Kenny says it is coming. If there is a report in the next five years to say there will be a train on that line, people will be happy with that. The chair of Sligo greenway is in his late 50s now and he said he was a child when the last train left Tubbercurry. Will our grandchildren be sitting wondering what is happening? We have a duty to look after the next generation.