Christine

Because when I drive home to Kerry, North Kerry, I come from the Stowell, which is a lovely town.

I noticed the amount of large houses.

Now, I don't know who the hell is building them.

Is it all outsiders or is it, to use an old Kerry expression, is it people with notions?

But you do see a hell of a lot of electronic gates now.

So the idea that neighbours are dropping into one another's cups of sugar is, I'm afraid, not really accurate.

Now, I also do feel very strongly about rural schools falling in numbers, and it is sad to see that.

But you have to go back to your earlier man.

The cost of providing resources for these one-offs can be astronomical.

So if you take the notion of the common good, you know, the Kenny Report going back, the common good,

It makes more sense to build, you know, around towns and villages where you have the infrastructure.

It makes more sense to give people grants.

I mean, it saddens me.

I drive to small villages.

Gosh, I hope they won't mind me mentioning, but Loughill is on the way home from Limerick to Lestow.

There's a lot of dark windows now, and that does make me very, very sad that people aren't living in the villages anymore.

And what you have is people driving to Limerick to shopping centres or to Leith to the shopping centres.

They're not supporting the small shops, so they all close.

So, you know, it's rural Ireland, but a slightly distorted view of the way it is now.

That it wants to be a bit like, you know, your mandate, that they want to be...