Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to be overcritical but this Government is fluent in excuses. No matter what we bring to the Government on lack of delivery, its ability to give a flow of excuses is incredible. It has to be realised that this Government has been poor in rolling out public services. In the past year, the Minister brought all the ministers for energy in the European Union to this country to discuss the issue of wind power. This Government has only built seven wind turbines offshore in the past 20 years. We have far more verbiage than we have delivery on many of these issues. I agree we should be giving more space to public transport. However, dozens of people were driving in the bus lanes and on the hard shoulders to get to work today because they were stuck in traffic for hours and could not bear the idea of being late again as a result of a system that is crushed. When Dublin empties out later today, people will be in exactly the same crisis but in reverse. This is a serious crisis and it has to be dealt with.

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