Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This State is in a state of spatial crisis. Services are being closed down on the western side of our country and rebuilt on the eastern seaboard. There is an overconcentration of economic activity and limited resources in a small space on the east coast, which is depopulating much of the west coast and causing bottlenecks in infrastructure on the east coast. What will the Minister do, through the spatial strategy, to address this issue?

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