Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland

2:00 pm

Photo of Tommy BroughanTommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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We have been working on this or at least thinking about it since the early 1990s. It has gone on for a quarter of a century or more. Has TII totally ruled out using a Spanish-type system? During the years people have been impressed by how the Spaniards created an amazing metro system in Madrid, Seville, Malaga and various other Spanish cities. Have we ruled it out completely?