Mr. David Fitzsimons:

I visited Dunmanway for the first time after the Chairman's colleague, Deputy McCarthy, invited me. I arrived in a triangular town. While chatting over a cup of coffee, we stumbled across the solution. Just 1 km down the road there was a school of 2,000 children. I could not believe it. Everyday at 3 p.m., their mums and dads collected them and went home or travelled to a larger town. We agreed that the coffee operators in Dunmanway should have vouchers for free coffees to attract people to the town. We discussed the awnings over shops. One could see the beauty of the place and why people would want to visit it.

Be it in Dublin city, which the committee has spent a great deal of time discussing, or my town of Ennis, which I love, I want my kids to be able to go to town and enjoy themselves safely in the same way we are happy to let our kids go to Dundrum. If this is not the case in a few years' time, shame on us all.