Pauline O'Reilly (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Living in Galway, as I do, the people live on one side of the city and the businesses are all on the other. As a country, we have put them there because we designed it in that way. There is now a problem with it. It is incredibly difficult to reverse out of that but I still believe that, with investment, we can. These are the kinds of decisions that are made through these strategy documents. We have put the people there and we have put the businesses in the other places. I am also looking at the draft all-island rail review, which says that, with real investment in rail infrastructure, you could have 700,000 people living within 5 km of a train station. That is the kind of investment that allows us to grow but it cannot allow us to grow if we do not have that kind of vision.