Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I strongly agree with the comments made by Senator Thomas Byrne on bogus trusts. People need to be extremely wary in all of these cases. We have already seen some instances of trusts being without legal standing. That is enough about the matter for the moment.

I welcome the announcement of the Luas cross-city rail project. It is tremendous that a loan for it has been arranged with the European Investment Bank. The project will transform rail transport in Dublin city and hopefully, as indicated, it will take up to 3 million cars off the road.

I wish to comment on the remarks made by Senator Daly. I urge him, as ever, to exercise more caution and less haste in levelling criticism. In the past the force to which he referred to was rather unsavoury, to say the least, but I do not think that we can be so assertive as to say that things happened at will. We should wait until the US special envoy releases his report on all legacy issues. When we have the report then we can calmly reflect on the matter and debate the entire situation.