Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In a simpler world and a different time, I found that the thing that increased your spend was whether all the TDs from all of the different parties in the Dáil said the job was being done right or done wrong. That persuaded politicians that money needed to go in. If you had a strong Minister for Finance, he would put the money where results were being got. They did not need any of these indicators. For example, Mr. Jordan can tell me how many ferry services are there but that is not the question. I presume they run on time. It is the ferry services that are not there that are the issue. It is the buses that do not run and the bus services we do not have. That is the problem with this stuff. Anyway, I am not going to waste Mr. Jordan's time.