John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On page 127 of the programme for Government it is stated the Government will fund additional capacity to meet existing and future commuter needs. I remind the House that the Taoiseach was very keen to tell everybody that he had been responsible for Luas cross-city, but he has not been seen during the chaos that has arisen since. The problems include timetable failures, chronic and dangerous overcrowding, the impact on commerce and a significant impact on journey times for Luas and Dublin Bus passengers, pedestrians and cyclists. Some 10,000 Dublin Bus passengers are discommoded daily as a result of route changes and electronic failures which resulted in the withdrawal of longer trams. The solution has been to take seven trams from the red line which serves the south side of the city and my constituency and transfer them for use on the green line. Can the Tánaiste guarantee the people of Tallaght, Belgard, Fettercairn, Citywest and other place on the south side of the city that there is adequate capacity on the red line to meet commuter demands, particularly at peak times? Does he accept that replacing trams on the green line with trams from the red line is not an acceptable solution to the capacity problem on the green line?

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