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

Each council area should connect up with the neighbouring council area. This is doable. It is up for play. I ask the Minister to achieve two or three of the things I have suggested. They do not require a budget. They just require a bit of vision. The Ministers, Deputies Donohoe and Eoghan Murphy, and others need to be convinced that this is the way to go. If the Minister takes this approach, he will get widespread support in this House, particularly from the Green Party, which is all about the development of rural Ireland.

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