Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

On average, only one meeting a year is held outside Dublin and the cost is low. The meeting in Wicklow was held during the Wicklow 400 celebrations and we met those involved in organising them as well as local community representatives. We have met in Cork and Waterford cities. My ministerial colleagues regularly hold meetings in commuter towns. They commute themselves and it is an issue with which they are most familiar.

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