Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That was on the record of the Oireachtas committee at the time. There are other areas that have not yet been developed, and the regional structure is one, but there is a reason for that. We have come through a pandemic, a once-in-a-century event.

I take the Deputy's overall point. The pandemic changes the way we do things.

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