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

I remember being at the first one with the Leas-Chathaoirleach - the first carriage. Séamus Brennan deserves great credit, and as I said on Sunday, the fact that he is lying in rest looking out over the Dundrum Luas station is very appropriate. He probably picked that site. He recognised it as one of the projects he was most proud of.

The Leas-Chathaoirleach is right. We need to be courageous and make decisions. I said earlier on that we need to be the same in Dublin city. It is vital. The city centre needs a lift. Because there are fewer people going into work post Covid, there is less retail footfall. There is less business, and we need to bring business back, counter the draw on our city out to the orbital motorway, and make Dublin city a really attractive living place, which we can do. I am very hopeful that will proceed in August. One of the benefits of it is that it is not expensive. We are talking about traffic signs here, mainly, and about lines of paint on the road, not big civil works. Even if we did it and it did not work, to reverse it in or two or three years or whatever period would not be a difficult thing to do. This can be done quickly, at relatively low cost and to my mind, to the huge benefit of the city.

I want to slightly widen it out. I was just thinking as the Leas-Chathaoirleach mentioned the Stillorgan bus corridor. He is right; I was involved in that as well and I recall the phenomenal increase in bus traffic, which was beyond what everyone expected. I look at that now, and I hope we do deliver the BusConnects project. That route going from UCD and Blackrock down to Nutley Avenue is going to be important. I will bring the Leas-Chathaoirleach in from there. If he looks at Donnybrook - and I am going into my own area rather than his-----