Mr. Paul Hogan:

Yes. It is just to illustrate the point before moving swiftly on. It is a national development goal to reduce social disadvantage and we can all agree with that. What we can do in a high-level document is improve mobility and access to employment, both in terms of physical location in a strategic sense but also the types of choices that people have in transport terms to get to employment, where our employment is located and how we organise settlement versus employment location.

Ensuring more appropriately distributed employment and a better spread will be important, as will the provision of third level education and ensuring that, as the demand for third level education grows in the next decade, there is good access to third level so that people can improve their qualifications. This is not just an urban issue - it is both an urban and rural issue, which makes it more complex. It is something we are very aware of as a team.