Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Transport

1:30 pm

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

That still stacks up today. It is poignant and appropriate to today. If I was putting a slogan out, I would add a third clause. I would say, "A lot done. More to do. A lot to lose." If we do not provide the investment, we could lose a lot. What this Government has particularly changed is the investment in active travel and public transport. It is not anti-car. We invested very significantly in car transport for the past 40, 50 or 60 years. If we do not invest in public transport, however, on the scale and with the sort of vision we have been talking about here today, we will lose. It will not work socially, in transport terms or environmentally.

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