Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----it leaves little scope for new regional maintenance and regional development projects. If there is to be a proper regional plan that seeks not to cut Dublin or to make it suffer but to restore and build a balance, one would ask why projects such as the Cork-Limerick route have not been given the go-ahead. This is why senior civil servants must appear before committees - to answer for this and to make the Dáil relevant once again.

On public transport, as I stated, the metro north has an 11-year timeframe, and all Members present might have left the Oireachtas by then.

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