The metro project will be of huge benefit to this city. Having travelled to a number of other cities, both in Europe and the US over the years, it has become clear that a city such as Dublin has reached a point where it is no longer enough to move people from point to point above ground as the city grows. Given the low density housing in this city it will be necessary to go underground, as is facilitated by the metro. I strongly believe in the metro and encourage the Minister to progress it. The Joint Committee on Transport, on which I and a number of Senators on the other side serve, has seen in great detail the work involved in this.