Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I was thinking about skills. One of the key issues for any work environment is people being able to enhance their skills in their employment environment. Are there challenges in respect of remote working because one will not have 50 people working together?

It comes back to the point that a person may be partially or fully isolated from his or her work colleagues. What means exists to address that?

Second, regarding the issue of hubs, one of the most successful hubs I know is a food hub in Drumshanbo. There is also a technology hub in Manorhamilton. Key to the development of those hubs were individuals who had an idea and ran with it. There is despondency about such development among people in many areas in that people do not have a broadband connection or they do not have this or that support. There are too many elements that people do not have for people to have confidence to be able to run with such an idea. I would like Mr. Christal to tease out what needs to be done to develop the capacity within communities to lift themselves out of all of that.