Professor Brian Caulfield:

I will stay away from Limerick but there are many examples from right across the world that when such a person is put in place, he or she can have a vision and can bring people with them. That gets to the crux of Deputy Bruton's question of how do we win the hearts and minds. When you have a strong leader at local level, he or she can bring people with them. Paris is an amazing example of that type of vision. Transit-oriented design was mentioned. We have a dual crisis in that we have a housing crisis in this country and we need to be doing an awful lot better with joining the dots between housing and transportation, in order to alleviate the problems that we have. When we start to build more and more new housing, we cannot do what we did in the past, where there was no access to the things that we need in our daily lives. That cannot happen again.