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

I mean no disrespect, but the Minister and I have seen, throughout our lives as politicians, that every community thinks it is the poorest community in Ireland but when we read a socio-economic analysis, the really deprived communities jump out at us. By reading the Central Statistics Office, CSO, statistics and visiting the areas in question, we can see they match.

As far as I am concerned, SICAP benefits the individual and that covers the whole country but the revitalising of areas through the planning, investment and development, RAPID, programme dealt with areas of high concentration of agglomerated socio-economic disadvantage. The Minister has mentioned one area, the north inner city, which anyone who goes to Croke Park by driving up Sheriff Street and those areas can see. The south inner city is just as bad, as well as parts of Tallaght and Darndale. I could name areas but the Minister knows them. In his own county, there is a little part of Ballina that has major socio-economic problems. It jumps out in the statistics. Is this targeted at those areas or is there a little bit for everybody in the audience and no effort to concentrate on these particular areas, such as Moyross, Roxboro and Southill, which are not the same as rural west Clare?