Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In the programme for Government, we were promised rural renewal, extra jobs and legislation. In Ballymahon, in recent days, we were told that this was going to be rolled out by the Government. There are a lot of views on that programme as to what it will deliver, but I have a lot of doubts about it myself. Right in the middle of that, there has been the re-evaluation of property. That re-evaluation of property is going to hit every county over the coming weeks, months and years. At the moment, the counties of Roscommon and Galway have had their properties re-evaluated.

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