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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes. Let us remember, people watching proceedings want to hear all this and they want to understand it. They do not want to be bamboozled by technology. What Dr. Hughes is saying is that all this capital formation, as he called it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What percentage of it should be focused towards the nominated cities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The State cannot control the private. I am talking about public policy and public control of public money. That is why I went back to the national development plan, which will be a sister plan to this. How much of that should be focused towards driving city growth? Is it the lion's share of 80% or 90%, or is it 10%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: How is best return defined?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What benefit? Dr. Hughes said "cost" and I know the cost. What does he define as benefit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What does Dr. Hughes describe as utility? I am sorry for being obtuse.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: In English, what does it mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Okay. Dr. Hughes is saying the order of priority should be to push the money towards the cities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am trying to understand what Dr. Hughes said. His thesis is the national interest is best served by focusing the growth into these urban areas. That is what I took from it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Therefore, the lion's share should go in there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: May I ask Dr. Hughes a question on that? I have only two more questions. I do not want to hog the meeting. Dublin was growing rapidly up to 2008 and 2009. In the greater scheme of ,history what has happened in the past five years in terms of growth will be seen as a very minor blip. It is growing rapidly again and the M50 is not up to it. Is there a danger that as the city grows, gets...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What about the demand?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The demand will be ever circular and this spill-out theory does not work. The more people they have, the more they can suck it back in again. Does Dr. Hughes not think there is a danger of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: May I ask one final question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I have one final question. I will be gone then. May I ask just one question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: May I just ask a question? May I beg the Chairman's indulgence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Dr. Hughes said at the very beginning that cities grew and became important because of the facility for the spread of information. Will he elaborate on what he means by the spread of information? How did that work in cities and not in the country?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That is a valid and interesting concept. As politicians, I think that we would all agree with it. When I was a Minister, I had a policy of never refusing a delegation from anyone and I went off and met the delegations as opposed to them coming to me. I agree with Dr. Hughes that there is a very serious role in that regard. However, one could say that us Teachtaí Dála from rural...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Will Dr. Hughes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I hear the nice words, but in cold cash, we are putting in the resources because we have to. If we are going to double the size of Galway, Cork, Limerick and Waterford and deal with the crazy problems Dublin city already has with its present population, we are going to have to put in megabucks. We all admit that Dublin is growing. Therefore it is going to take more and more megabucks....