Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

We invested greatly across a range of areas through the national development plan, the results of which can be seen throughout the country. It is true that items in the national development plan are not completed. Those items are included in this plan because we want to see the intercity rail routes completed. We put together a coherent plan based on the best professionalism of all the statutory agencies working with the Department of Transport which we never had.

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