James Bannon (Fine Gael)

I call on the Leader to invite the Minister for Finance to the House to debate a more even distribution of economic growth throughout the country. We want to see a greater spatial balance. We need investment programmes in health, education, road infrastructure and numerous other areas. Transport 21, which will be debated in the House this afternoon, gave nothing to the midlands. As the Leader well knows, the proposed re-activation of the rail route from Mullingar to Athlone was not included.