Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There are umpteen task forces. We have regional action plans with which I was involved. I was involved in the Action Plan for Jobs. It is about having a plan, making decisions and implementing hundreds of actions every year to make it happen. That is why I believe in the national planning framework. We will not get investment and jobs in these different regions if we do not have a plan that is backed up by infrastructure which makes it possible to locate jobs in more areas. Each county, town and village has to decide what it wants. Each town and village has to have some sort of long-term aim, purpose and vision. It needs to feed into something as well. I am not here to defend IDA Ireland. I am just here to point out that it has to win jobs for the country first and then get them dispersed.