Dennis Leonard

And our problem in Westmead is all these great projects are going on around the country, not one of them in Westmead.

Irish Rail have two stations in Westmead, a county of 100,000 people, one below and at Lone, one in Mullingar.

So anyone else has to drive 15 miles to get on a train.

When they could just go over the road...

There's 100 car parking spaces in Caloocan.

It could be opened, at the moment, the last cost, it was Irish Rail Zone cost, was about 10 million.

But when we first started doing this, it was two and a half million.

And funny about the Navan line, the cost of that, you probably know, is 700 million.

Now they're saying two to three.

And the biggest thing, one more point here, is that they're talking about the metro.

And when they're asked what the cost is, you probably heard this, somewhere between $9.5 and $23.5 billion.

Now, how in the world do you have a parameter that big, number one?

And number two, how can the people in Spain build the same rail line for one-eighth the price?

Well, they give all kinds of stories about wage costs and infrastructure costs and planning.

We spend an awful lot of money on consultants.

And the other thing is accountability.

And I think this is huge.

We have asked in our council, we're just one council, for the last two and a half years, for NTA and Irish Rail and Bus Air to come in to us and look at the public transport deficits in our county.

They have refused each time, put it off, we're getting a new CEO, we're getting this, we're getting that.

Irish Rail did come in two years ago over the report that they did themselves.