Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)

Following up on the issues of transport and traffic, I wish to comment on the city of Dublin. Clearly, Dublin is hugely important from a tourism point of view but the specific criticisms we encounter relate to the lack of integrated ticketing and appropriate transport, as well as gridlock. I urge the Minister to co-operate with his colleagues in the Department of Transport on those issues because tourists have repeatedly referred to them as barriers to visiting what is a very expensive city.

In order not to incur the wrath of Deputy Naughten, I wish also to raise the matter of access from the city of Dublin. We must examine how to more effectively transport people from Dublin to other regions.

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