The Government‘s recently announced action plan for Rural Ireland must benefit the people and the communities from rural parts of Kildare, according to Frank O Rourke TD
“I welcome the Government’s announcement and its action plan for rural Ireland. Any walk around towns in rural Kildare, such as Johnstownbridge, Kilcock, Newtown, Derrinturn and Prosperous shows how they would benefit from the action plan announced.”
“The plan, which has 270 action items, must not be another lost opportunity to rural parts of Kildare. I support the measures to revitalise the towns and village throughout the country, but I believe that often rural parts of Kildare are missed when such plans are announced,”
“As we know, many of our rural towns were badly affected during the recession. We must assist these towns recover – assist in bringing in more residential occupancy in the towns, facilitate more commercial activities, improve the recreational and sporting facilities and broaden the appeal of Ireland’s Ancient East to improve tourism numbers and improve our broadband coverage.”
“Moves to introduce possible rates alleviation schemes to support rural development is long overdue and welcomed,“
“For this plan to work, we must have ring-fenced funding. The ultimate test will be what additional new funding will be ring-fenced for this plan. I am calling on the Minister to clearly outline the additional funding for this action plan and introduce a supplementary estimate for 2017.”