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

Something we could agree to do is to stop scoring petty political points on serious matters of national public policy. I fought tooth and nail for four years in government to protect the metro. I was literally fighting with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We kept it and preserved it, only for the incoming Minister with responsibility for transport to abandon it in 2011 when European Investment Bank funding, planning permission and a railway order had been obtained in respect of it. That was one of the worst mistakes made by any politician in my time but I will not go back to those events in order to score political points.

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