Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

No, it is not pitching town against country. What needs to happen from an evidence base is to look at the situation and see where there are gaps in public infrastructure provision. We should use that evidence to say that in the absence of public transport, and hopefully we will have it there at some stage, we will provide additional support to people living in those areas. We are not saying it is towns versus cities or anything like that. It is basing this approach on evidence. It is concerned with where alternatives exist. If there are none, then we should be subsidising and helping people.