Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Dunnes or Tesco should not put on special offers in a small rural town because they want to close down a few rural shops. If Dunnes or Tesco put on offers they must do so throughout the country and they must be fair, and not just target the people they want to put out of business. Rural Ireland will have no rural schools, Garda stations or shops and if the planners get their way we will have no rural people. If Fianna Fáil is left in government much longer nobody will be left in rural Ireland because it wants them all in Dublin city.

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