Talking about fantasy, I am not sure if anyone remembers the press statement issued by the Minister of State's Department in 2000 under the name of the then Minister, the now Leader of this House. It states: "Government announces metro for Dublin". That was announced more than three years ago. It does not use the words "would", "maybe" or "if". It states the Government directed the CIE light rail office to immediately commence the necessary preparatory work for the metro public private partnership with the objective of seeking invitations to tender within 12 months. We are now told three and a half years later that a number of companies have expressed a certain interest in a much scaled down version of the metro which was announced as fact and planned three and a half years ago. How can we have any faith that the Government will deliver anything next year or in two years' time as the Minister of State promised? It is as a result of bitter experience over the past six years, when money was available, that we can, unfortunately, predict with some confidence that much of what has been promised yet again here this evening will not become reality in four or five years' time and that the difficulties which the citizens of this city experience on a daily basis will continue for the foreseeable future.