Seanad debates

Wednesday, 15 October 2003

The Minister for Transport has set out four key policy areas in the Department, as follows: investment, being competitive, reforming the current situation and, above all, delivering on all of those areas. That is the policy of the Department of Transport and it is exactly what we are doing. The transport policy framework we are now developing is addressing these issues. We are working in accordance with the DTO's Platform for Change. If Senators examine our current figures they will see that people are already changing over to public transport. We have examined other public transport areas, including what has been called the London miracle. I accept there is a difference between Dublin and London's public transport systems because the latter has extra facilities. I am not blaming people here for taking their cars to work every morning but I believe that when we are able to produce a suitable public transport system people will use it.

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