Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It would be good to have a business plan that set out investment costs and ongoing annual support, and then to factor in how that might develop in terms of attracting more business and developing more rail-based enterprise, which would obviously reduce subvention over time. That should not be seen as a barrier but as a long-term commitment to that overused and underfunded phrase, balanced regional development.