Brian Hayes (Fine Gael)

——would the Leader agree that much of the Government's work in this area in the past 17 years has been guesswork? When will we see the metro project for Dublin? Fianna Fáil has been in office for 15 of the past 18 years. We are now being told that a plan is imminent. I ask the Leader, as a former distinguished Minister with responsibility for transport who has never been involved in guesswork, to give a commitment to the House as to when the Government will take a decision on the project and when the metro will be operational.