Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)

Deputy Cullen was in the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and had direct responsibility for the promised Dublin transport and land use authority. The authority was a joint initiative between the Departments of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Transport. When that became too difficult, it was scrapped. Nothing happened for another two years and then, as an afterthought to Transport 21, the Minister came up with this idea.

It has been glaringly obvious for more than a decade, if not as far back as the 1980s——

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