Tá áthas orm an rún in ainm Seanadóirí Páirtí Lucht Oibre a mholadh. Public transport in Dublin is, to use a phrase with which the Minister of State will be familiar, a joke. It is a mess. Despite ten years of economic growth and unprecedented resources, our system is still woefully inadequate for our purposes and is by any reasonable standard worse than that available to the citizens of any other capital city in the EU. The circumstances enjoyed by Governments during that time, especially this Government and the one before it, could hardly have been better.