Seanad debates

Wednesday, 15 October 2003

Earlier today I spoke about the possible abuse of the word independent in this House. The word expert is definitely abused. An expert is somebody who has great knowledge in his or her field and is reasonably competent and able to predict what will happen in that field. Mr. Owen Keegan told us lately that the level of traffic predicted for Dublin in 2016 is already here. We are 13 years ahead of target. Who were the so-called experts who predicted that level? If I professed myself a transport expert and got my targets wrong by 13 years I would be mortified, I would hang my head and have to go back and learn new formulae because the formulae I used were certainly not working.

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