It is interesting that young people's value systems and their ideas about where to live have been transformed. Anyone who lives in a university city or town, or anywhere with a third level college, will contrast those places with what they were like 30 years ago or even further back. When the Minister and I were students, they would not have dreamed of going home at weekends. The place to be was the big city. Now, every Friday afternoon – not for economic reasons – there is a mass exodus to small country towns and rural areas by our otherwise urbanised students, for the quality of life for many of them is better in their home areas than in big, urban areas such as Dublin and Cork. That is quite an extraordinary statement, for the belief was that youngsters were drawn by the bright lights of the city but the evidence is overwhelming that that is not happening.