Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

One of the issue that arises is when someone has a mainland property and they are moving permanently to the island but want to keep the mainland property as a base, because I know many islanders who have always lived on the island but have a mainland property because they spend a certain number of nights out, particularly the ones that are further offshore, when they want to go for services or children going to college and so on, and that can be an issue. We need to dig a little bit deeper into that. There is also the perception issue, which can be very debilitating. If the word gets out on the street there is no point in trying, that in itself can be debilitating.