This budgetary overrun is scandalous. Equally scandalous is the net effect of the projects, each of which is having a negative effect on Dublin and is sucking more traffic and people into an already suffocated city. As a further result, some much needed bypasses, for example the Ennis bypass, and other infrastructural works have had to be shelved or neglected. The list continues to get longer. The Luas project is late and massively over budget. The initially estimated cost was €290 million. The revised estimate – perhaps I should say guesstimate, as this is the way these projects seem to operate – is now €750 million.