When will Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party stop discriminating against people in County Limerick? We brought forward an amendment to the Project Ireland 2040 plan and the Government voted against it. The Government is stopping people building in towns, villages and rural areas because of a lack of investment. All of the investment to upgrade infrastructure is going into the cities. When you look at the towns and villages around County Limerick, the Government is saying it will invest in the upgrade of the existing structures but it will not allow for any additional capacity. That means SMEs and all the businesses in our towns and villages in County Limerick cannot go to the banks and tell them that their businesses need to expand because of extra footfall. The Government has stopped any expansion of any business in any town, village or rural area because of the lack of infrastructure. All of the funding is going to the cities and unless you are within 15 minutes of a city, your existing sewerage systems will not be upgraded. They will say there is existing capacity and that extra capacity will not be allowed on top of that.

There is no agenda in this Government in discriminating against Limerick or rural areas in general. There is an unprecedented capital investment programme in local infrastructure the length and breadth of the country. The issue will be delivering in terms of the capacity constraints in the economy, including the availability of labour and other issues. The town and village renewal programme will result in investment in towns and villages in Limerick and across the country and that is being provided for. The urban regeneration and development fund, URDF, funding to Limerick was significant-----

They will not increase capacity. They will only upgrade the existing capacity. The only upgrades are in the cities.

Let the Taoiseach respond, please.

The URDF has allocated substantial money to Limerick, as the Deputy knows.

Towns and villages.

Towns and villages are being funded through the rural communities development project.

Upgrading is being done but extra capacity is not being allowed for. That means you are closing us down.

Maybe the Deputy should put down a Topical Issue matter and he will get more time to deal with it. We are out of time with three Deputies remaining. If they each ask their question in 30 seconds, we will take them.