Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I represent part of the constituency - not a big part but an important one. I support Deputies Fitzmaurice, Connolly and Rabbitte on this issue. There is a major problem with funding and offering a small amount of money to the various municipal districts is not much of a carrot because the deficit is so big. The city and the county have a total population of roughly 320,000, which is very large, with 275,000 in the rural areas.