Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

People in this country do not choose public transport because the public transport options are not available to them due to the failure of this and previous Governments to provide them. With regard to setting out plans, the Minister said earlier that he had asked the NRA to consider plans for a new orbital motorway. Why does he not tell Iarnród Éireann that he, as the public policy maker, wishes to provide public transport options and ask that body to bring forward a detailed plan of how that would work? Why does the Minister not take a lead and, rather than throwing his hands up in the air and saying people like their cars and that he can do nothing about it, start providing the public transport people desperately want?

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