Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Senator MacSharry and several Senators called for a debate on rural Ireland and I will certainly try to arrange that with the Minister of State, Deputy Ann Phelan, in early course. The €30 million scheme announced last week is of course only one in a myriad of finance projects being put into rural Ireland through various grants. I am sure that can be discussed during the debate. I will not get into tit-for-tat with Senator MacSharry on the number of Garda stations and post offices closed down under Fianna Fáil's watch. It would be very embarrassing for him so I will not get into it.