(Dublin West): In the framework for action on infrastructural development, including public-private partnerships, which was prepared for the Cabinet sub-committee more than a year ago, particular emphasis is laid on addressing bottlenecks and constraints, including capacity, skills and institutional barriers, where the national development plan is concerned. As the person with overall responsibility for the Cabinet sub-committee, does the Taoiseach find it incredible that, only a month ago, two Departments showed absolute ineptitude in overcoming institutional barriers when 19 workers were led in shackles from Dublin Airport to prison although they came here with a licence to be immigrant workers? Is the Taoiseach confident that such outrages will not happen again and that the Tánaiste and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform will finally clear the lines so they are going in the same direction?
In the context of the emphasis laid by the Cabinet sub-committee on public-private partnerships in electricity supply and other projects, does the Taoiseach agree the one major example of a public-private partnership, the bridge over the Liffey at the M50, is not a model or an encouragement to people to have hope or to look with confidence towards the idea of public-private partnerships because it is the major obstacle to traffic in north Dublin, with traffic stretching from the Liffey back to Finglas on an afternoon as workers try to go home?