Mr. Richie Flynn:

I am sure that anybody setting up a business in a rural area would hope to employ their neighbours to prevent people from having to emigrate and to keep the football teams and the place going. It is not always possible to employ people from the local area. People from all walks of life are living in the town in which I live in Leitrim and all around the coast and they contributing. They are local. I do not really follow the point there. Again, perhaps that is for another day.

Deputy McNamara asked about the ESB in Parteen. Perhaps I am showing my age but the ESB was one of the pioneers in salmon farming in this country with the Salmara company.