Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

We are still way under the EU average for cars. If one talks to the people who are usually right about these matters — perhaps somebody can stop them — there will be more rather than less. On that outer orbital route both in terms of size and scale we need to look far beyond the box and that is what I have been driving towards within the system and at the committee.

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