Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We need much more than that. We need to build communities. We need a co-ordinated approach to the sustainable development of our communities to avoid the boom-to-bust mistakes of the past. Our plan is focused on people's quality of life as much as on ensuing they have homes. The communities in which they live must have top-quality schools for all children to attend. That is what Project Ireland 2040 is about. There will be investment in community supports all along the way. Those children's parents will be able to aspire not only to own their own homes but to work locally so that not everyone has to commute on long journeys like so many of my constituents in Kildare. We will continue to drive on with a co-ordinated, whole-of-Government approach because it is the right thing to do and it will deliver for the people in this country in a sustainable way into the future.

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