Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)

The Minister of State already knows that the money allocated to each local authority this year is insufficient to even meet the plans already put in train in 2007. Does he accept that there is a shortfall in the considerable amount of resources required in each local authority to fulfil the objectives set out in the national development plan? Will he revise his figures downwards to meet that new reality?

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