Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

I do not know where the Green Party members were. They must have been out doing the Brussels sprouts rather than at the Cabinet discussing this matter. They must have been cooking up a storm. The key issue is that in the transport programme, €1.7 billion out of €2.7 billion is for the roads programme. Leaving the M3 and Tara out of this, we were told by the Green Party that we would see a shift from roads in favour of public transport. I do not see it in this budget. I also noticed that while the Minister mentioned existing public transport projects in Dublin, he did not mention the metro to the airport, the interconnector or the new metro line to the north side——

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