Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

The money was provided year after year after that meeting. The traffic in Dublin will improve as part of an evolving process. The improvements which have started will be added to and implemented, but there will be pain before there is gain. There is no doubt about that because it is the way advances are made in any transport system.

It is interesting to read through the debates in these Houses when the DART system was being introduced. Senators should go to the Library to read what was said then. Woe was predicted in the 1970s by those who said that the DART would ruin the country. Similarly, we will look back one day on the opposition to the Luas and metro projects, expressed for example in an editorial in The Irish Times on Monday, 2 June 2003. Those who are wailing about what is happening at present must know that one cannot rub a magic lamp to produce a metro or a Luas system and to make everyone happy. All these things take time.