Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion

5:00 pm

Photo of Maurice QuinlivanMaurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There are four of us from Limerick on the committee and we think it might be no coincidence as to why we are doing so well. We will keep it up anyway.

To come back to the data centre issue, will a new Bill be brought forward to progress the idea of strategic investment? Obviously, we will be changing the planning laws. Is it a good idea to call data centres strategic investment? I do, but is it something the Minister wants to do? Are there other categories that would be added in trying to encourage FDI into the country? I have one planning concern about it. Is it a good idea to bypass the local authorities?

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