Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have two more minutes. In respect of what Mr. Shanahan has said, I have had several meetings with the director of economic affairs in my own county. No one outside of this country knows the name of any area other than Dublin. Mr. Shanahan's aim is to get investors into the country, but equally the focus of the pitch must be to get them to invest elsewhere in the country. If they do not know of anywhere other than Dublin then the pitch must try to tell them about the regions.

If Mr. Shanahan is telling me this is the level of competition IDA Ireland is up against, then how in God's name are we going to achieve the regional spread that IDA Ireland aims to deliver?