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
Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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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