Ms Mary Buckley:

With regard to land, as the Deputy knows in Carlow we did have a very large, 60-acre site which we sold to Merck Sharp & Dohme, MSD, a very active and a very large employer in Carlow. Earlier this year, it announced that it was expanding with 300 additional jobs between Cork and Carlow. That site was very important at the time and it has gone to a terrific company that is continuing to grow in Carlow.

The second point about Carlow is that we plan to construct a building there next year. It will be an advanced office building and is a project under our regional building programme, which aims to either attract new investment or to facilitate an existing investment to expand.