Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)

I wish to give more priority to Dublin Bus and other bus operators in our capital city. We need vision and that was not evident last night. People were blaming the bus gate for the global recession and that was not the right thing to do.

I welcome the fact that the Bill is a step towards modernising legislation that dates back to the 1920s and 1930s. There is a job to be done to integrate the office of the directly elected mayor of Dublin with the Dublin Transport Authority, the national transport authority and the functions that emerge from the Bill. I look forward to teasing out the detail in further deliberation on the Bill on Committee and later Stages.

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