Joanna Tuffy (Labour)

Areas such as those I represent in Lucan will not get the benefit of Luas next year or, perhaps, for another ten or 15 years. We want something to be done about it now. The position will get much worse unless the Government gets its act together on Luas and the metro and unless other measures are taken. There is a need to invest in Dublin Bus and to double the service on the Dublin-Kildare route. There is no confirmation from the Government that it will provide the necessary investment to ensure Iarnród Éireann fulfils its plans to double its service on the Dublin-Kildare route. We have a Department of Transport. The idea was that there would be one overall integrated Department that would solve our transport problems. I ask the Minister to make it what it was meant to be.