Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

I will move to a different issue. I congratulate the Taoiseach and his Ministers on arriving to work in the Dáil today clean and dry at a time when thousands of Dubliners are out there walking through the rain to work. Some years ago, at the beginning of November 2005, there was an extraordinary Government media blitz when the Taoiseach and an array of Ministers set out the plan for Transport 21. We were told this plan would modernise Ireland and all its major cities with regard to public transport.

Our young people have travelled the world and admired transport systems such as subways in the United States or the Far East, trams in Bordeaux or the underground in Lisbon.

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