Conor McGuinness (Waterford, Sinn Fein)

I accept that entirely. We need these towns. They are very important. Every town, every urban rural community, is under pressure for housing, but larger urban towns are under huge pressure. It seems that public policy, that of local authorities and the State, is driving people from rural communities into these larger towns, heaping demand on demand while hollowing out the rural communities that surround them in many cases, and they are also important. I am not the only person saying that. It is coming from local authorities, the GAA and rural development companies very strongly. They are seeing it on the ground.