Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It is a beautiful street. It should be full of young people in cheap housing. Last but not least, I want to echo what Deputy Collins said. If the Minister does one other thing in addition to making changes with regard to public banking, I suggest he should grab the Minister of State, Deputy Phelan, and not let him go until he agrees to the creation of district councils. They could be voluntary. I suggest the Clonakilty model should be applied across the whole country. I do not know where the Clonakilty border stops. There should probably be some border point between Clonakilty and Timoleague or Rosscarbery. There should be no gaps. We need to get away from the 19th century concept that the town stops on the edge of the town. It does not. The town probably stops five or seven miles out. We should create district councils for every single town in the country.

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