Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Sometimes I find that what the Deputy has to say can be quite confusing. I assume he has now dropped that south western project he had in mind. I notice that he has abandoned it. That is all right then. I see nothing wrong with him dropping one project one week and taking up another project another week. It is somewhat volatile but he is entitled to be volatile in this business and to drop one project he has championed for a long time, to say it is no good and to accept the opinions expressed to us that his project was never a runner in the first place. That is fair enough so let us have more ideas from him. It would be very useful if he produced a large number of ideas on the transport strategy because we will have a review of that strategy. It is coming up in the next 18 months and will conclude in 2021. The Deputy will be able to have an input into that within the constraints to which he objected but which he was so prominent in setting up in 2008.

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