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

I was involved as chair of the Dublin Transportation Office in the early 1990s. I have been working on this in a public way since then. I would argue the biggest impediment to progress is when various agencies of the State do not row in the same direction. I do not want to give examples but going back to the mid-1990s we had the issue of the metro. CIÉ was touting a rail link from the eastern rail system versus the Dublin Transport Office arguing for something else. Sometimes we get competing visions for where we are going, and I include local authorities in this. When two or three agencies of the State pull together in the same direction then we move fast. When they pull against each other we go nowhere. This is one of the biggest issues.