Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The most important measures are jobs, employment, incomes, businesses and investment. When it comes to the IDA, which the Deputy mentioned, of the 139 new investments made last year, over half were outside of Dublin, which was very significant. Enterprise Ireland works with Irish-owned exporting companies and over two thirds of new jobs created by Enterprise Ireland companies were outside of Dublin.

Our job as Government is to listen to everybody’s case and argument. The Deputy makes a very strong case for the north west, which she should as a Deputy from Sligo. I could hear Deputies from the south east – and I see their heads nodding-----

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