Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

There are hourly trains to Cork, as opposed to the twice daily service ten years ago. We are extending services on other routes and I hope people use those trains as originally they were not running because of a lack of use. The Tánaiste and Minister for Finance is giving a huge amount of resources — €34.5 billion — to help and much of that will be going to public transport so people commute on it.

With Transport 21 and the western rail corridor, the new commuter services to Galway coming on stream and work on inter-urban roads under way, the Minister for Transport, the NRA and the other agencies are everyday making further improvements.

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