Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Taoiseach said with the benefit of rose-tinted glasses that the Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, had had the project costed and evaluated. We have had all of this before on various projects including, in the Taoiseach's case, Campus and Stadium Ireland, where all the assessments, analyses and all the figures were supposed to be done on time and on budget and we saw the result of that. The Luas lines do not join up. The port tunnel is not yet opened, is five years behind time and has cost €700 million.

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