Noel Harrington (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I tabled this question because of the frustration many people feel. Cork is a large county and west Cork suffers from having the city in the same administrative area. When the IDA and Enterprise Ireland present figures, they present them for the whole county in the round. Cork city attracts a lot of investment and often west Cork does not attract the same attention from Enterprise Ireland and the IDA. Given the difficulty of attracting Enterprise Ireland and the IDA to Cork, can the Minister outline how Enterprise Ireland and the IDA can bring companies from west Cork to the market?

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