Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of major national importance, namely, the dire predictions for the BMW area for 2025 in the NUI Maynooth report on rural Ireland, showing a decimation of full-time farmers from 40,000 to 10,000 and those to be located in the south and east; the continuing bias favouring development in the south and east due to Government policy; and considering the underspend identified in the mid-term review of the national development plan for the BMW area, the need for the Estimates to make up the BMW under-spend in the capital envelope to address the regional imbalance in infrastructural investment and give the BMW area and rural Ireland a future.

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