Shane McEntee (Meath, Fine Gael)

I hope the interchange between the M50 and the port tunnel will work from the road hauliers' perspective. We will find out in a few weeks time. Fine Gael Members do not want to complain it is not working. All Members hope it will work because the number of lorries travelling through the city is too high and until they are removed from the city, matters will not improve.

I return to the business of jobs. Jobs are being lost because of the failure to be able to move freely, be it in Dublin, Kerry, Donegal or Galway. Representatives of Bus Éireann, Dublin Bus, the metro and the various rail organisations must sit down together, but we must have a Minister who is prepared to bang heads together to ensure that our transport system is one of which everybody is proud. If they can have successful systems in other European countries, I do not see why we cannot have them here.

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