Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It certainly would.

I will finish on the EU competitiveness index, which has pointed out that the west and the north west are in the bottom 7% of all EU regions. That has to be faced up to. We really have to think differently and we have to think outside the box. We cannot continue doing the same thing we have been doing, looking at less than 7%, underneath Romania and some of the poorest states, while ours is one of the wealthiest states. I thank Mr. McDonnell for his information.