Conor McGuinness (Waterford, Sinn Fein)

On the statistic the Minister gave about population increase in rural communities, for my understanding, do those rural communities include towns such as Midleton, Clonmel and Carlow, that is, larger county towns, or are we talking about smaller towns, villages and countryside areas? There is obviously population growth taking place across the State, but my concern is that it is concentrated in significant and large towns where there is increasing demand and that people are being removed from the support networks and communities they grew up in.