Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

Nothing threatens our economic progress more than the dysfunctional transport system that has been devised by the Ministers opposite. The Supplementary Estimates which are to be decided on by the House provide for the transfer of over €100 million, which we have been unable to spend this year, from the public transport budget to the roads programme. One of the elements of the public transport programme is the extension of the Luas light rail link to Cherrywood in south Dublin. The plans for that project gathered dust on the Minister for Transport's desk for several months.

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