Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Taoiseach mentioned ports having been discussed at the 30 June meeting. Perhaps he might expand on that, stating which ports and developments the cross-departmental team discussed. In Killybegs recently, €400 million worth of trawlers were tied up. Fishermen and businessmen made the point that the port is not open for business owing to the Dublin-run bureaucracy attached to such facilities. It means that business worth millions of euro is being lost, and the cross-departmental team should consider that. The Government has spent substantial sums on the port, totalling €50 million or more. It is not open for business, and that should be examined seriously.

I would also like to ask the Taoiseach about one of the largest — if not the largest — infrastructure projects in Europe in many years, which far exceeded its budget and which affects the Taoiseach's constituency, namely, the Dublin Port tunnel. Has the cross-departmental team examined what appears to be the $64,000 question? How does one get 2,500 or 3,000 trucks out of that tunnel and into the slow lane to join the M50 without the wholesale disruption of traffic? Every taxi driver I meet——

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