Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-22
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

I believe every town and village should be able to increase its population and have a natural increase. We will be sitting down with Irish Water over the course of the year to see whether we can provide it with additional funding to service more sites but, as I said earlier, the bottlenecks we face in Ireland are no longer a lack of money. We have never had a bigger budget for housing than we have now. We have never had a bigger budget for health than we have now. We have never had a bigger budget for investment in public infrastructure than we have now. The constraints are different ones. They are planning, the availability of labour and the availability of materials, and they are the bottlenecks we need to solve.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-22