Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

People have made the argument at many of the meetings to which Deputy Rabbitte referred that they have brought about a huge improvement in the North by centralising services into one location. Deputies do not want to hear this but precisely that point has been made here for some time, whereas lobby groups argue against it because they want services spread thinly, the opposite to what Deputy Rabbitte correctly said has happened in Northern Ireland.

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