Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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In real numbers, it is not actually. We are talking about a 300,000 increase in population in the Dublin and eastern region. That is 1.5 times the size of Cork that is going to be targeted for this part of the country. If we speak about population in terms relative to the existing low population of the regional cities, it sounds like a lot, but actually it is not a lot in real numbers.