Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

In response to the Deputy I have moved ahead and am not waiting for legislation. I have put an establishment board in place already. I will do the same with the Dublin transport authority. Once the legislation on it is published, I will put it in place, at least in shadow form, as I have done with many other bodies, so that it can get on with the work that is clearly required over a range of areas. Much of the work the authority will deal with is already happening. There are very good people already dealing with many of the areas. What we need now is a co-ordinated approach to some of the overlapping issues affecting the different bodies.

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