Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

I also wish to express solidarity with Senators Cox and Kitt on the water supply in Galway. This is becoming a wider problem. Obviously there is an acute problem with water quality in Galway but the issue of security of supply also arises in other parts of the country. It ought not to be a problem in a country with as much water, rain and lakes as we have, but, nonetheless, it will need much higher political attention in the future.

I am in favour of balanced regional development, but if one takes the motorway to Kinnegad, are we saying that is not of benefit to the people of the west even though it is situated——