Sir, - Minister Mary O'Rourke's superb piece of spindoctoring over the resignation of the chairperson of CIE does not deflect from the simple question: Is the man right or not?
Will Luas cost between £700 million and £1 billion pounds? Will Luas cost between £500 and £1,000 per person living in the Greater Dublin area?
Does the Department know? Does the Department care? Is it correct to spend so much on Luas now that it has changed so completely from what was originally proposed? Should we deflect some of the money to QBCs, extra buses, or rail cars or not? Will the integrated transport plans of Cork, Galway, and Limerick be ignored as money is sunk down one single hole in Dublin?
Will the Minister respond, or are the ordinary people not worth bothering with, and taken for fools. - Yours, etc.,
Barry Keane, College Road, Cork.