Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have heard loads about Waterford, in the Dáil and elsewhere. The Chairman mentioned one figure. That was a once-off, but the trend is that it is coming down. It has come down 2% and we are pushing to ensure that it comes down another 2%. We are not complacent. We are not taking it for granted that such is the way of Waterford.

From having looked at Waterford, it is a great county. Waterford Institute of Technology, which is fantastic there, works with the Carlow institute. They are able to deliver jobs. For the record, Waterford has had Bluefin Payment Systems, Cipher Technologies, CGM, First Data, Technopath Clinical Diagnostics, MSK, Abco, Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories and Sanofi Waterford. Things are happening.