Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

The only people who have put a question mark over metro north since I came into this job are in the Labour Party. Deputy Burton was at it last week and I am sorry if she was disappointed this morning and this afternoon. Deputy Broughan has constantly raised the question about whether the project was to go ahead. I respect his interest in the matter. Along with several people in the media, the Deputies have been the only ones placing question marks. The RTE website has it that, according to informed sources somewhere, metro north is one of the projects that will definitely be deferred. I do not know where they have those informed sources.

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