The European Court of Auditors published a special report on rural development programming yesterday and it found that the process is very complex and vague and that not enough emphasis is being placed on achieving results. Is that not damning proof that there is no rural proofing of any legislation that has been passed? There has been great spin about rural development, massive reports have been published and there have been great expectations. However, no tangible results have been achieved. The report published yesterday is damning. Anyone living in rural Ireland or representing a rural constituency knows that. The programming is all aspirational in nature. We saw it with the Leader programme and the rural development programme. They have all been hijacked and abandoned. Funding is not getting to where it needs to go, namely, to the ordinary families, community groups and projects.

A question on rural proofing for the Taoiseach.

I have not seen the report to which the Deputy refers but the programme for Government commits us to implementing the Action PLan for Rural Development, which we are doing.

I know it does.

The Deputy will be aware that employment is up and unemployment is down in every county. The number of premises that have access to high-speed broadband has risen from half, when the Fine Gael and the Independent Alliance came to office-----

That is not true. It is worse now.

-----to two thirds now. It will be three quarters by the end of the year. Considerable investment is going into rural Ireland through programmes such as the town and village scheme, re-establishing the local improvement scheme to improve laneways and rural roads and many other initiatives.