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

We happen to have a Tesco as well as a Supervalu in my nearest big town. If one took those out, they would just go to the next big towns of Castlebar and Galway. Anybody who thinks people are still going to go to the little high street store, park the car and drag their bags back one by one should get real. It is not going to happen. We have to plan for what real people do. I am very afraid that we are planning for some tidy model that does not take real people into account. I note one of the very interesting things about what Eir has done with the 300,000 connections. The census does not show this because one could get into all sorts of planning problems for doing it where one's house is not meant to be a business place.