Pat Casey (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is no village or rural town in Wicklow that has the capacity to take any housing so where are we driving rural dwellers? Until we address that we are not giving people the options of living in rural towns and villages. A rural village or town will never reach the objectives Irish Water has for a 15-year return on investment and will never be able to get a payback on water infrastructure. Something needs to be done to allow villages and towns to expand and develop because most of them have stagnated at the moment and have no chance of developing into the future, which adds to the one-off rural problem.