Public Transport
Dail Éireann — 2026-09-17
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Paul Murphy (PBP), Dublin South-West

This Government is, in a way, in an envious position. It has the capacity, in terms of a massive budget surplus, to protect people from the cost-of-living crisis. It is probably a position that governments across the world would like to be in. The Government can protect people from the cost-of-living crisis but instead chooses to impose extra costs on people. It is quite incredible. It is a targeted attack on those people who use public transport. It makes no sense from the point of view of the cost-of-living crisis as it is going to make it worse and it makes no sense from the point of view of the climate crisis as it will make it worse. The main thing I would say is pressurise, pressurise, pressurise. Put pressure on those backbench TDs who tell you that they agree with you, and that they will raise it with their Government colleagues, to show it in terms of the position they will take on the budget if the Government does not provide the money.

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Sitting date: 2026-09-17