Seanad debates
Wednesday, 15 October 2003
Public Transport: Motion.
I want to pick up on something Senator Mansergh said. We all agree that we need a good public transport system throughout the country. I live in Dublin but come from Cork. We are here tonight to talk about Dublin and we must recognise that we have a huge population in Dublin and this is where many businesses want to invest their money. We saw an example of that recently with a company called eBay. The Government offered that company huge incentives to locate in the countryside but eBay decided it wanted to locate in Dublin. That is the reality. Dublin is the centre for many businesses. It is close to the airport and to ports. We have to strike an imbalance, so to speak, when we are dealing with the infrastructure for Dublin because we are so congested that something will give. My fear is that many of the businesses which have located here from overseas will vacate the country because it is so difficult for them to move about the city.
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