Réada Cronin (Kildare North, Sinn Fein)

I remember as a councillor I would get all the reports. I often wondered if anybody read them or even the county development plan. I remember when I was elected only a couple of months before and I was handed this huge thing. I was the first Sinn Féin member to be elected in Kildare and I just wanted the Six Counties back, to be honest. I was handed this big national development plan, and I said Jesus, Mary and Joseph. We did go through it. We were really diligent and went through every page. I often thought that if you are inserting something, you should have to take something out. They cannot just keep getting bigger and bigger.