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Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Now the agencies are delivering because they have money and the economy is good. As one of my colleagues said yesterday, the Government is not into wasting money by doubling the national debt or spending money——

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The great success of the parties opposite——

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: ——was they spent practically all our resources. About 28% or 29% of the entire resources of the country was used to service the national debt. Deputy Burton knows because she was appalled at that.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Now we are able to have plans and put in resources. Those opposite had practically bankrupted the country. This Government is doing constructive things. Yesterday I saw the senior members of the Labour Party driving a bus around town; it was not much of a bus, being about 20 years old and it would not have carried many of the public.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: They were horrified to see that a plan exists because they used to talk about doing something about Tallaght.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: There will be proper transport and proper infrastructure and the IMF will not need to come to talk to the Minister for Finance.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I will make three points for the information of the Deputy. He does not wish to listen. Before he saw any of the plan yesterday he decided to go out on a political campaign and a poor one at that.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: When Luas was launched I remember the Deputy's party saying we would never see it in the lifetime of the next Dáil and now 20 million people——

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I suggest the Deputy stops telling deliberate untruths.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I was merely making what I regard as a fair point that the Labour Party said it would never see Luas in the lifetime of this Dáil but I remind them that this Dáil has a long way to go. Luas has been operating for a year.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I disagree; it was not.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: No, it was not.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Deputy Burton should make up her mind whether she is a heckler or a politician. The Luas has carried 20 million passengers so I doubt the credibility of the Labour Party to make any comments on this matter. Deputy Rabbitte asked me three questions. This plan is the result of due diligence and the full costing of the agencies to enable the Department of Finance to properly cost it as a proper...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The Minister stated yesterday there was a requirement this year for 20 additional buses; he was referring to the needs of the next few months. He then went on to give full details of the full requirements for buses over the next decade and this is contained in his speech. I am sure there is no need for me to read sections of his speech to the House.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I will not read the full list of all the issues but as Deputy Rabbitte is of the view that none of these issues will be of great value to the Dublin area I will refer to the Dublin area. The metro north will go from St. Stephen's Green to Swords via Dublin Airport and is scheduled for completion in 2012. A new orbital metro west will shadow the M50 to the west and connect the Luas red line at...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: None of the projects is set out in detail now. From an engineering point of view, not to mind a cost point of view, for planning reasons and to try to get co-operation with the agencies, we will not be able to deliver projects like these if we do not work on the basis of a prolonged period. The Government, based on the national development plan, the national spatial strategy and the best...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: ——but the fact is we have set out a coherent way forward by working with professionals.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The transport plan is not about making a political point. The Government is not saying what we will have done by 2007 or 2012 but trying, over the next decade, to move infrastructure from the very good base to which we have brought it in a manner which is properly planned, costed and designed and to give people adequate time to get this right. If that approach is wrong, it is a sad day for...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: As usual, I will ignore the political points made very poorly by Deputy Rabbitte.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I have seen him involved in several different parties and activities.