Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Irish Central Border Area Network
Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I have a question. I welcome all of the contributions made. It has been a fantastic engagement, focusing on a region that needs significant broadband development. My question concerns demographic change. I know that the witnesses are from different counties, including Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Fermanagh, Armagh and so on. How challenged are their respective areas in trying to hold onto young people or to attract people to work? Broadband will be the number one challenge. Are there any other significant issues in relation to demographics that are different to other areas along the Border?
There are around four minutes remaining. We must finish at 11.30 a.m. by order of Covid regulations. I invite the witnesses to sum up and address the questions raised, if they so wish.
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