Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Surely the role of the rural development Department is to be, as I described it earlier, disruptive of the vertical approach within the State. The whole idea of a crosscutting Department was to cut across all of the anomalies caused by the vertical structure of the State, which creates totally wasteful resource use by having all of these schools and community facilities just lumped with more people. They do not need more people or massive new housing schemes. What they need is a little investment. My understanding of the rural development Department is that it was to be disruptive in this regard, and that it would put in the lateral money rather than the vertical money.