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🌾 Rural Development: What Each Party Proposes

SocDems

Rural and Regional Development

Regional assemblies with real power. Community banking. Community-owned wind farms. Broadband and remote working hubs.

Rural Ireland has been left behind by decades of Dublin-centric policy. Towns are hollowed out, services are centralised away, and young people leave because there's nothing to stay for. The …

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SocDems

Community Banking for Ireland

Full current account banking through credit unions and post offices. Debit cards and online banking for all.

Banks have abandoned rural Ireland. Post offices and credit unions are left without full banking capabilities. Germany has 400 community banks. Ireland has none. That needs to change.

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