Seanad debates

Tuesday, 7 October 2003

I do not want a debate on transport; I am sick of debating it. I seek a debate on our infrastructure in general. Public transport is part of that, as are telecommunications. We are now reconstructing a telecommunications infrastructure to operate parallel to the one we sold to Tony O'Reilly and company some years ago, which is now being run down even as the assets are being stripped from what used to be a fine State company. There is a report from the OECD which suggests that, with regard to public capital accumulation, this State is at the bottom of the list. That means that we have the worst infrastructure and the worst investment in the OECD. There cannot be any future prosperity in the State unless we sort out all our infrastructure. I urge the Leader to allow a good, detailed debate with a serious Minister who knows what is Government policy – which is a difficult one. That Minister must tell us what the Government will do about it.

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