Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We represent communities. We decide on their behalf what services they are provided with and where they are provided. That is the Minister's responsibility and he has abdicated it. He talks of a 19th century model being modernised. What is his plan? Is it to put everybody into a city? We have a culture in this country where people live in communities. Our responsibility in this House and what we are all paid good money for is to provide them with services, but no, the Minister is obsessed with the cost of everything and the value of nothing. It was a community that elected him and his father before him and everybody else that represented anybody in this House in the past. We have a responsibility to communities. I ask the Minister to remember who elected him and why he is here. It is not for the photo-call; he is here to provide services. He must reverse this decision.

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