Tom Morrissey (Progressive Democrats)

I would like a number of issues addressed. Before Christmas, we were promised legislation on the setting up of the transport authority for the greater Dublin area. A head of the authority, which was announced nine months ago, has not even been appointed. Only yesterday, I received a letter from Dublin Bus stating that it had now secured a timetable for the train service to Donabate and that it would endeavour to serve commuters there. One would hardly believe Dublin Bus and Iarnród Éireann were part of the same organisation since 1932. They can behave like that because they have a monopoly.

What is happening with the State Airports Bill? We do not know what is happening in Shannon Airport nor do we know who will pay for Cork Airport.

Under Transport 21, ports were transferred to the Department of Transport. We have not received a statement on why that happened and on the policy direction. There is a very clear commitment in the national development plan that a study will be done on the location of Dublin Port, yet it has stated it wants to increase its size.