Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I compliment the Minister on her approach. Without doubt the bottom-up approach is the correct one, recognising the wisdom of the community and the local knowledge that exists in every community and putting to use that local knowledge to improve the situation for everybody all round. As I said before, we are now a bigger community but one can be isolated in a big community as well as in a small community. I ask the Minister to continue to do everything possible to encourage new entrants, new bodies, into the arena as it were, and to ensure she continues to provide the basic infrastructure that can be utilised in the expansion of the activity she has so rightly initiated.

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