Áine Collins (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Our relationship with the people who have emigrated in recent years is far greater than it ever was because of IT, including Twitter, Facebook and Skype, which is a great benefit to families. I have experience of that personally as my daughter has been away for a number of years. We are talking about bringing people back. We talk about our diaspora, which is something I am working on in a different concept. When travelling around the United States recently I met a man who had been away for 27 years and I was the first person from Cork who had ever contacted him to talk about Cork. We do not appear to have a database of all the people who have left-----