Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

What this fund is designed to do as well as big projects, such as the Bord na Móna projects I mentioned earlier, is to help small communities be part of the process and the transformation. It will be a small help maybe in those cases but every bit helps in terms of everyone being part of it. If we do this, we can get to what Deputy Fitzmaurice said, which is public support for a range of developments we will have to make in new energy projects, new forestry and new farming mechanisms and practices. It is on this basis I am afraid the amendment cannot be accepted but I hope the Bill will be in a short time.

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