Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)

I can safely say that west Cork is a beautiful area but if we are realistic, there will not be a railway line to Bantry in the short term. Whether or not Paddy Sheehan, a former Deputy, wants one, it will not happen. In the meantime, we should have a quality road network to the west so that Dublin people can enjoy it and vice versa so that people from the west can come to the capital city which is not only Deputy Eamon Ryan's capital, but is our capital also. We should be able to enjoy the capital city at the weekend or enjoy a coffee in a plaza-type atmosphere in O'Connell Street, yet most of the proposals have been objected to by the Green Party time and again.

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