asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he is yet in a position to indicate when the report of the Transport Tribunal will be published, and whether, as a result of the report, he has yet formulated a scheme for the transport system in this country.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Publication of Report on Transport.
Mr. Byrne
I would refer the Deputy to my reply to Deputy Davin's question on the same subject on 21st February last. I then intimated that I was not yet in a position to indicate when the report of the Transport Tribunal would be published as consultations with other Departments as to the recommendations of the tribunal had not concluded.
Mr. Byrne
Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that, although this report is being denied in this House and the country, so far back as last autumn extracts from it were published in England in a paper called Modern Transport? In view of that, it is surely the duty of the Parliamentary Secretary to see that the House should be made aware of what is going to be done with regard to transport in this country?
Whatever the English know about the report, I am afraid I have no knowledge of it. I do suggest that the impact of the implementation of a report on national transport is a matter for serious consideration by all Departments of State. In view of that I submit there has been no undue delay.
Mr. Byrne
I again ask the Parliamentary Secretary if he is aware that extracts from the report were published in this English newspaper last autumn? In view of that, I think that the people of Dublin and the Irish public should be made aware of the contents of the report. This English journal published extracts which it stated had been approved of by four out of five members of the commission.
Perhaps these extracts were like the statements of Deputy Dillon regarding the decision of the Supreme Court on the Constitutional issue submitted to it.
Mr. Byrne
The Parliamentary Secretary's reply will not give much satisfaction to the Irish public who have been waiting for some information and for some encouragement from the Department on this matter.