Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

Those are our six big trading areas. We also need to get various things right to make ourselves quicker, cheaper and better and help these industries. We need to develop the digital infrastructure, not just by investing in broadband but also by making information freely available. We made our census information freely available and this has been a major boost to tourism. We released the environmental data about Galway Bay and this has been of major benefit in bringing in investment. People have used that data to develop business opportunities. We need labour flexibility, a productive public service and a funding mechanism to help our businesses.

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