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

We should avoid anything that would return all those commuters to the roads. We are going to put the first battery-electric trains into Drogheda and run them south along the northern commuter line. It would hobble the commuter and Enterprise services to provide an airport link, particularly in the absence of all those capacity improvements. We have an alternative. The decision involves not a few hundred million but multiple billions. That may be down the line but it will be a long time after the metro has been built.