Dennis Leonard

If you talk about climate change, one third of our emissions come from transport.

And yet everyone from my area is more or less forced into a car because there's no reliable bus service or train that they can actually get.

And a station sitting there where the train stops seven or eight times a day and they won't let anyone on or off.

And it's all, you know, oh, that's costing too much for what it is.

So it's OK to spend 50 million on a failed IT system, but not OK to spend 10 million given emissions.

16,000 people within six miles of Caloocan Station, a public transport option that they'd be more than happy to take because most of them work in Dublin anyway.

Bike sheds, hospitals, a whole lot.

It goes on and on here.

And you hit me on the head there again, because the people sitting at home, they look at the 10 euro or 20 or 30, whatever they have in their pocket.

That's real money that they know exactly how they're going to spend for the next week.

And it's not enough sometimes what they need.

The Irish rail, not these companies, would deal public money like monopoly money.

So we'll throw out a figure for the Avanine 700 million.

Well, maybe it's two to three billion.

We throw out a figure for the metro, you know, four or five billion, whatever.

Oh, now it costs nine to 23.

I just think it's appalling that this use of public money is just and where everyone else is struggling.

And it could be actually given back to people in so many ways.

But sometimes people, when they're paying tax, they want services.

They want schools, they want amenities, and they want a public transport system they can take.