Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

Some €34.4 billion has been allocated by the Government through the Minister for Finance to the Department of Transport for expenditure on Transport 21. It is interesting that this is the first Government in Europe to set out and recognise that investment in heavy infrastructure requires a long-term view to bring certainty to the market and deliver projects well ahead of schedule and on budget. I know that in Deputy Burton's case there is enormous jealousy and upset in the Labour Party in Dublin that all the things they bleated about for years are being done by the Government.

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