Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

That is fine and there is a big church in that group, but that does not bother me. The fact is we are delivering and this is visible every day not just in Dublin, but across the country. It is very interesting that public support from 2006 is fantastic for the developments in transport and the visible transformation of almost the country's entire landscape, including what is being done for communities through bypasses and returning economic and social quality of life to different areas on a weekly basis. It is something this Government is committed to completing. That is why I am the only Minister for Transport in Europe today who got a €34 billion package, a ten year framework, who put in place a development plan that is clearly cohesive and got the financial resources to deliver the solutions.

I have heard Members of the House talk about places in Europe, and Vancouver in Canada and I have spoken to people there and seen them all. There is a very simple answer to this. We are not backward in delivering in this country. That is a simple statement of fact. We should be proud of what many Irish men and women are doing as regards delivering infrastructure.

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