Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael succumbed to the tail wagging the dog, or the Green Party, on this. We do not see much public transport. I do not know what people in the north west see by way of public transport, but we do not see it in Kerry anyway. Rather, we see big, flashy buses in Dublin, double-deckers or whatever, and one or two people at the most inside them. That is where the money is going. It is not going to Kerry to the Killarney bypass or the 673 local improvement schemes that are still on the list in Kerry. I am sure that permeates the counties the people present represent.

That is what is happening. We are not getting our fair share. People are paying their motor tax and every other kind of tax, but whole lanes of traffic are choked day after day. The Government says this is supposed to help with our carbon footprint but if people are twice as long in their cars waiting to go somewhere because they are held up in traffic and the traffic will not move, the argument for that is long gone. I support the people from the north west, and Belfast or wherever, on their motion tonight.

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