Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There are now university towns all over Ireland and that will make a big difference into the future. There is also the Department of Rural and Community Development, which I established in 2017, which was initially under Deputy Ring and now under the Minister, Deputy Humphreys. Everyone acknowledges the amount of investment we are seeing in our towns, villages and rural counties, whether it is enterprise hubs, remote working hubs, surf schools or food hubs. There is huge investment in every county in the country.

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