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

I have one more question. On remote working and digitalisation, I agree with Mr. Hegarty that remote working is important and has great potential. However, the issue is that in some regional towns, from which people drive by car every morning to a nearby city, there is no hub. There is some work being done by some Departments on setting up small hubs but it is not scaled up. The hubs are not big enough. There are also issues with regard to security, confidentiality and so forth. If workers must commute to a multinational in a city from a regional town, which entails sitting in a car in traffic for an hour and burning all the diesel that Senator Garvey rightly does not like, and rightly so, it is desirable to have remote working hubs built to scale. Other jurisdictions are doing this. It would mean people would not have to leave the regional towns and that quality of life would improve. It would have an impact on emissions targets. It could be a win–win. I am not sure whether that is on the agenda of any Department but maybe we could consider it and do a pilot somewhere. It could help the regional towns because people could stay in them, shop in them and restore town life, rather than leaving them in the morning and coming back in the evening, probably having shopped elsewhere. Is there a box to be ticked in this regard?