The most important item for the Minister to consider is further investment in the rail network. The suburban rail network coming into Dublin from Kildare and Navan is under-resourced. The existing line needs only further signalling, platform extensions and extra carriages. It is not a case of reinventing the wheel as the capacity is available on the line. These improvements will not cost as much as one might think when one looks at our future traffic congestion. Compared to the rest of Europe the level of traffic congestion here is imponderable. No city in Europe of comparable size is now operating without a metro, except Luxembourg whose population is only 80,000. I urge the Minister to make an early decision on the metro. Last summer I had the pleasure of visiting Professor Melis in Madrid. When one looks at what has been achieved there in the last eight years, with over 100 kilometres of tunnelling and a metro in place, one has to ask serious questions of the systems and methods used in to do business in Ireland.