Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach should listen to me because I know those lines intimately. There is a solution that avoids problems and would save us the cost of stopping services on the green line for a year and a half to upgrade it. The solution is to keep the tunnelling machine going. It is very cheap to do so because the cost arises in getting the machine into the ground. Once it is in operation, we should keep it running to University College Dublin and from there to Sandyford. I would not stop there but go all the way around the south side.

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