Greens: Why delay the Transport Authority?

The Green Party has welcomed today's Report for the Establishment of a Dublin Transport Authority but criticised the Transport Minister Martin Cullen TD for the long delay in setting up an institutional framework for transport management in the Greater Dublin Area.

Green Party Environment spokesperson Ciarán Cuffe TD said: "In August 2000 Mary O'Rourke published A New Institutional and Regulatory Framework for Public Transport. That Report called for a new framework for institutional and regulatory reform of public transport. Now six years later we're still waiting for the new Authority to be set up.