Ulick Burke (Fine Gael)

——it is important we realise that the Minister's decision is welcome in that it may provide an opportunity for a decline in building inflation. I ask the Leader for a debate on this issue to highlight the BMW region. I give credit to a former Minister for Finance who initiated a pilot rural renewal scheme for the upper Shannon. Anybody who has seen the benefits of this in an area that had been declining, particularly County Leitrim, would have to say that the scheme was a great benefit to rural Ireland. Its loss is a pity.