Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

A leopard clearly does not change its spots. The exchange between the Minister and Deputy Munster was quite revealing. We have a Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport who begrudges spending public money on developing public transport. I suspect I know the answer to my question, which is whether the Minister accepts responsibility for being obliged to intervene in the situation in Irish Rail. Workers have been pushed to take strike action at the end of the month by the actions of management. The Minister's intervention should take the form of paying what was recommended by the National Transport Authority, NTA, namely, €125 million to combat underfunding over the previous six years.

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