Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

There are five new schools dealing with the issue. We have put enormous investment into the area to which the Deputy refers. The Deputy said there was a problem but it has been resolved. His constituency has more new schools than any other in the country. I accept the population has been growing but people have to live somewhere and I do not think the Deputy has an objection to that. Good quality housing, private and public, is being built in the Deputy's constituency.

Under Transport 21, this year we are spending €1.5 billion on roads. Deputy Joe Higgins's area has done extraordinarily well in terms of a lot of the smaller roads.

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