What kind of warped thinking would suggest that an area bled white with emigration for centuries whose sons and daughters have built the economies of the United States, Great Britain and Australia, and which has never had a fraction of its just economic desserts from either national or European budgets, should be dumped upon in such an unfair and illogical fashion? Knowing the attitude of the Government to the BMW region, this is possibly an area the Government might gladly embrace. One might ask where the spatial strategy currently stands. One might also ask what is the reaction of the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Ó Cuív, the so-called great defender of the west, to the scandalous recommendations affecting the BMW region in this report.