Mr. Robbie Kitt:

I just need to make a point. I was thinking about this when Deputy Danny Healy-Rae was speaking about new operators coming in. There is nothing new about dancing. Dancing has been around for a very long time. Even in rural Ireland, while it has not been the case for the last few decades, in the era of the dance halls, there was a lot of additional social infrastructure in rural Ireland. We are talking about a different era but there is amazing documentation about this including things like posters from dance halls back in the 1950s and 1960s talking about dances on Wednesday and Sunday nights in Cahersiveen going on until 3 a.m.

There is precedent in the history of rural Ireland and in the types of social provision that were available in those places. As the Deputy has said, there are a lot of opportunities here. It would be great if we could look to our past and the traditions we have in the country.