Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

One of the startling successes outside Dublin has been the Belfast to Dublin corridor. It offers opportunities to create critical mass outside Dublin.

On the comments made about Meath and the levels of IDA Ireland jobs, I know that all of the Deputies are obviously engaged and fired up about the issue and I do not wish to have the poor mouth too much, but Kildare has about seven times more IDA Ireland jobs than Meath, Wicklow has three times more and Louth about four times. These are the actual figures extrapolated from IDA Ireland's data. IDA Ireland will typically state - there is some logic to it - that a job in Maynooth is available to people from Meath and that a job in Mullingar is available to people from Tullamore, etc. but counties like Meath-----