David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have met some business people who benefited from that scheme when they were flooded and they were very grateful for the assistance provided. They needed help urgently and the money was paid very quickly.

I have one final question. The Minister of State mentioned green and environmental schemes and one of the issues that is coming up frequently is remote working. In some cases, people are not working from home but from digital hubs in provincial towns and so forth. At the moment, it seems that all of the funding is geared towards the not-for-profit sector. Has the Government or the Department looked at assisting in the establishment of larger hubs that might be used by large businesses so that rather than hundreds of people having to travel every day into centres near cities, they could stay in their own provincial towns and work there? This would be beneficial for the environment as well as reducing the amount of time spent commuting and the stress associated with that. A lot of good work has been done by other Departments with respect to some of these hubs but they are usually small scale, with relatively small numbers and set up by not-for-profit bodies. Is it time to look beyond that and to grow such hubs further, bringing them to the next level as they have done in other countries?