Seanad debates
Wednesday, 10 December 2003
Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion.
One of the issues here is planning, which has been raised in the House on many occasions, especially in smaller towns and villages. I know we have provided much money for water and sewerage schemes, but I see many studies on local authorities which refer to settlement centres in the smaller towns and villages. If one is setting a radius of 500 metres from the centre of a village for the purposes of development, the first thing to be done is the provision of sewerage, as I know many small towns where planning has been refused on the grounds of not having a sewerage scheme. This is something which I hope the Minister will examine. He has reduced the criteria for financial help to villages with a population of 1,000. He will have to reduce the criteria even further to help villages with even smaller populations, which I hope he will do.
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