Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not understand it - just because people have small back gardens, it attracts industry. What is the definition of a "town”? It is houses close together with small back gardens compared to all of us in the countryside who live with big back gardens and fields around us. There is no fundamental difference between the two, apart from twisty roads and broadband.

It will be interesting because it seems to be an idea that one can only get a factory in a town. Will Enterprise Ireland show us as it is and the way people actually did it, as opposed to the way the gurus want us to do it? What is the distribution between towns, villages and the middle of nowhere, as the rest of us think it is when I think it is the middle of everywhere? Rural development seems to be now about towns.

I would love to see Enterprise Ireland's map because I am not sure it would provide any proof that towns have a significant advantage over rural areas in creating jobs.