Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for that. Finally, when we start to come out and come into recovery, how we will budget for remote working into the future and plan our development? I do not like the use of the word "remote"; it is just off-site working. I see that as an opportunity for the regions to grow their population and create a balance throughout the country.

Perhaps the Ministers would give their thoughts as to how, from a budgetary point of view, the Government might positively discriminate towards such a scenario in which we spread the population from the major centres of population out into the regions to support them. We have proven we can work remotely. The national broadband plan will deliver and reinforce that over the coming years. However, how do we put in place the backup to make sure that people move to the regions and create populations and a critical mass within the regions?