Michael Colreavy (Sligo-North Leitrim, Sinn Fein)

She will need to be able to step fairly adroitly through matters over the next couple of months.

On the Private Members' business, septic tank charges, rural Garda station closures, cuts in agriculture supports, cuts in community groups funding, increases in the price of diesel fuel, increases in school transport charges and threats to the very existence of smaller rural schools are only a few of the attacks on rural communities contained within budget 2012.

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