Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)

The Minister of State is right to say there was a great deal of support and community activity around the bid for smarter travel. People in Drimnagh and in the other areas were led to believe the competition list had been reduced first to 11, then to four, two of which were in Dublin, Drimnagh and either Sandyford or Sandymount - I cannot remember which - and two outside Dublin. When the announcement was made that the smarter travel bids had gone to three areas outside Dublin a question was raised. One bid went to Westport in County Mayo, a well-known area of the Taoiseach-----

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