Ned O'Sullivan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not too sure I would recommend that. This Government definitely takes the biscuit. Joe Stalin would be impressed by the methodology here. Anyway, we have a chance to discuss this plan. It seems to me that transport is one of the few areas in which we are unambitious as we seek to project into the future. If we are going to address the very serious problems in this country's transport infrastructure, we need better planning, better forecasting and more joined-up thinking. Our transport infrastructure is haphazard, dysfunctional and anything but joined-up. This will not come as any surprise to the Minister. When I was perusing a number of his Sunday Independentcolumns, which were written when he was a Member of this House some years ago, I noted that he was scathing about aspects of our public services, especially our public transport system. He wrote about the structure of that system and about the involvement of unions, for example. He seems to have become more sanguine since he became a member of the Cabinet.