Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed)

2:10 pm

Dr. Brian Hughes:

I love going down the fields with a half-cup of coffee in my hand to collect cattle to bring them back and to help do relief milking. Our environment can be various and our lifespan's experience suggests we will not always be in one location at one time. To take the Deputy himself, for example, he grew up and was educated in Dublin and now he has the benefit of both worlds in rural Galway, which is fantastic. The thing is to try to build on the strengths of all aspects of Irish life, both urban and rural. That is why I said initially in my presentation that the need for complementarity between urban and rural is what we all need to focus on.

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