Mr. John Keane:

From a geographical point of view, we have not seen anything that specifically deals with a wide geographical or regional-based approach to generational renewal or getting more young people involved. In some localised areas we have seen tax incentives and investment savings offered for people to move into certain areas that have become depopulated, if that is what you want to call it, in order that these people support the local school and GAA club - or the local soccer club or whatever its equivalent on the Continent might be. We have seen those type of schemes work in general to encourage people to repopulate areas. I do not see why there could not be a tailored support for those areas where the age profile is higher and it would also mean there would be more inward investment in those rural communities because more young people would move in and children would be in school and so forth. I do not see there being an issue there. It is something we would have to think more about in terms of how something could be designed for the implementation of it. The overarching point on a national perspective is we need to start with a suite of measures that work at a national level and then look at regional measures to be made in coherence with that or running alongside it, which will be sometimes be sector-specific. In some areas, there is one predominant sector. It could be beef or sheep that are predominant enterprises in certain areas. What can we do to address the challenges for young people? We feel we have identified and addressed many of those in terms of land access, finance and capital investment support to ensure that people have a lifestyle that is comparable with that of their peers.