Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will get to that. I am answering them in the sequence in which they were asked. Deputy Dooley asked about the just transition fund. I assure him that we obviously listen to Deputy Carey, the Minister of State, Deputy Breen, and Senator Martin Conway, and Deputy Dooley, as he knows. The Minister, Deputy Bruton, has confirmed that the principles of the just transition fund will have to be provided for beyond just the midlands. It is right and proper that the midlands is a priority area at the moment for reasons the Deputy will understand but those principles will need to apply more broadly than that.

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