I will digress for a moment to return to the Deputy's point on families, as I forgot to mention something. Earlier we discussed the economic base model population. Dr. Alan Ahearne is professor of economics in NUIG. Something is emerging, which he described as being annoying to economists who are scientists, that relates to quality of life which is increasingly being seen as a key determinant for certain growth. It concerns why clusters suddenly arrive out of nowhere and why high-value people move to places. It is really important because when one speaks about the movement of families, part of our ethos is combat or offer alternatives to this. We do it through regional promotion and, as I mentioned in the written submission, we are working with IDA Ireland and the institutes of technology to do a talent tool, which we have done once before, to capture people of talent in the region as well as those who are outside the region and wish to return. It is predominantly being used to attract inward investment and grow the case for indigenous business. I am not saying that it is a solution or a panacea but it helps. It was apparently the key determinant for Randox moving to Donegal rather than continuing to expand in Northern Ireland. They did not know if there were enough PhD-type people. We showed them the data that indicated there were and that took that issue off the table. We are hoping to do the same thing in a better way in the future to strengthen the case. We have done preliminary research and we know the reason that thousands of people want to be on the talent tool is because, rather than wanting any old job, they want a job in the region from which they came or where they wish to live, namely the west for its quality of life.

We discussed broadband. I could not agree more that the better the quality, the faster the roll-out. We hear that from business constantly. The Deputy said it was a key determinant of people moving out. I have already said that it is a key determinant of people deciding to stay. We have hundreds of businesses in the creative sector alone saying this.

On the national planning framework, it would be great if we could do that overnight. I join with the Deputy in asking that it could be fast tracked, but it is not within our remit. We believe it would realise huge gains for the region.

The question of the bypass is very interesting. I will have to consider it further. We have worked with small communities such as Letterfrack, where they might want to have an enterprise centre and we ask for what purpose, who will be there and what they will do. We are working with them now in phases two and three of that and some ideas are coming out of that. However, that was not due to a bypass; it was just us working with a small community. I will return to this because it is something that is new to me.