Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. I have another question for the Minister of State. What does he really think about this issue? I am not sure that what he said to us in his reply is what he really thinks about it. He will bear in mind that we did not get a copy of his reply, which are sometimes difficult to follow, but I have a major concern about his comment that our towns will not get the infrastructure they need if they are not in the metropolitan area of Dublin or in areas around Dublin, even though they are in County Kildare. Such infrastructure would include the second bridge in Newbridge. We might not even get the final delivery of the outer relief road for Athy because the Minister of State is saying that housing will follow the infrastructure. I agree that we need infrastructure, but we need that development for our towns as well.

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