Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Mr. McGowan said something that worries me a lot. Croí Conaithe is translated as “living heart” and it was designed to bring life and living back to town centres. It was designed to reactivate or to assist people to bring vacant, derelict or over-the-shop units back into place. Mr. McGowan said he got three but he is expecting many more now that it has been expanded to the rural areas. To me, that is quite worrying because it undermines the entire objective of Croí Conaithe. Would Kildare County Council be of the same mind? Does it expect that this will be expanded to the rural areas to get a lot more interest?