Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

These machines are frozen in time but are being paid for on the basis that people will forget about them and go away. Perhaps the Government will come up with something at a later date, renaming them and using them for counting fish and, as a result, the machines will have justified their existence. I cannot believe the Government can do something like that and walk away silently.

Reference has been made to daft expenditure. The port tunnel is an important economic item but do Members know that it cannot take An Post tall vans?

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