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

This question refers to new money in the rural development plan. The Minister of State, Deputy Ring, did a great job in impersonating an Opposition Deputy when he told us what the Department needed to fix the problems. He has correctly identified what we need. The only thing he did not identify were the funds required. Over the past eight years we have had an investment famine in this country. Ireland is second from the bottom in Europe with regard to infrastructural investment. That is why there has been a corrosion in the infrastructure or rural Ireland. This question seeks to find out what the Minister will do to address the infrastructural famine in terms of real investment.

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