Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed)

2:30 pm

Ms Anne Graham:

Yes. We obviously have to start in the densely populated areas. There are certain parts of Dublin that are not very well served at the weekends and in the evenings. We should start with where we get the most bang for our buck in terms of looking at the big cities to try to increase the services there. We are looking at where we can put in additional weekend services and then look at the other towns. We will not be able to solve every town and townland's problems overnight. This increase and availability of funding has only occurred in the past two years. We recognise there are gaps in services. I will not say there are not gaps. We need local people to identify where those gaps are, bring them forward to us and we will try to resolve those issues.

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