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Seanad Éireann — 2021-06-15
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Emer Currie (FG), Nominated by the Taoiseach

I thank the Minister of State. I feel that suburban and urban villages are being left behind. We are doing all this amazing work and we have set out the strategy. Suburban villages such as Ashtown, Ongar and Blanchardstown would really benefit from this. I know there are concerns about city centres, but it is a different thing. We are afraid of the worst-case scenario when the horse has already bolted in terms of the effect that the pandemic has had. We need to be thinking about a dynamic recovery for our city centres and we can do that but we also need to carve out a space for our suburban and urban villages.

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Sitting date: 2021-06-15