Dr. Carol Gibbons:

I thank Deputy Bruton for the question. If we look at town centres, in particular, and connections to hubs for remote working, we work across government in that regard and particularly with the western development agency and Department of Rural and Community Development. There are approximately 500 hubs across the country now that are linked on connectedhubs.ieto give people an idea of where they can go within their locality.

I will look at enterprise centre development and pick out a couple of areas in our regional development funds. We have supported enterprise hubs in cities and counties. The Portershed in Galway, for example, is an enterprise hub we have supported for the region, looking particularly at start-ups in areas such as medtech, adtech and technology across the board, which are really important. It has worked with approximately 30 start-up companies in total to date and more in terms of the actual network itself.

In Dublin, we have supported the Guinness Enterprise Centre in terms of its expansion and again, we are looking at working with companies in the cities and in the regions in particular.

Tallaght would be another good example in terms of social and local and again looking at food and artisan and the connections across into the community as well. Across the regions, Enterprise Ireland has supported 68 projects under the regional enterprise development funds, with support from the Government of just over €100 million. Those centres and hubs are at different stages of development at this point. I will hand back to Mr. Clancy.