Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will make one final point. On local government funding, as I have explained previously, population increases have meant that counties such as Meath are underfunded. They have been underfunded for many years following population explosions. However, the first chance it got, the Government, as finances improved, began to redistribute funding to all local authorities. We are correcting the mistakes of the past in construction and everywhere else as well.

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