Mr. Paddy Malone:

I apologise for going back on this, but let me clarify that this is taken from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government report of May 2013. The average rating is 5, so that if one reaches 5 one is on the average score for the gateways. If one is rated below 5 one is in trouble. Our score is the lowest of all. The score is arrived at by adding up the eight and dividing by eight, which means that weighting is not given to any one aspect over another. The only heading under which we scored significantly higher than anything else is under the heading "natural-physical". I do not wish to be crude but the reason we scored highly under this heading is that Diageo built a sewage treatment plant in Dundalk. Members can see we have scored highly only in this area, and otherwise we are not doing well.

Deputy Calleary made a good point in regard to graduates. One of the action plans of the Louth Economic Forum, which Senator White's husband chairs and of which I am a member, is on clustering. Kingspan Glen Dimplex and other companies in the region within the Louth Economic Forum are actively working on that area. Two of the biggest players in the world are collaborating and working on it.

There would not be a week or a month without somebody referring to buying booze overseas or the Dundalk Chamber of Commerce making a statement on it. All we can do is to keep sending out the same message. We encourage the Garda Síochána to keep up security. However, it is difficult to police the area, in particular because of the motorway. Senator Quinn will remember travelling from Warrenpoint to Dundalk and going through three or four checkpoints. Now with the motorway, one does not stop.

Diesel and fuel were the major black economy commodities. I was critical of the Government when it said that a new dye would solve all the problems. I told the Minister than the ingenuity of those in south Armagh had yet to be beaten. My understanding is that they have been beaten at present and they have not been able to crack it. That is very positive. I would agree with Mr. Talbot that we still have a serious problem with alcohol. As a parent I have witnessed that on more than one occasion because of the prevalence of cheap booze.

We have the pharmaceutical and other industries in mind for Dundalk. The reason we target the pharma industry is because of the significant amount of money that has been spent already on a huge IDA site. This imposing site, which is on the left hand side as one drives out of Dundalk and has light posts sticking out of the ground in the middle of fields, has been vacant but unfortunately that represents something that did not happen.

We met EirGrid recently to discuss the need for the North-South interconnector, the question of the north east and the development of the electricity supply. I mentioned the pharma plant to it but it did not know that the IDA's next pharma plant would be located in the region. They would not answer the question on whether there would be enough energy for it but from the messages that I got, there was a question mark over it. The IDA has spent a fortune building a site that has been derelict for nearly ten years. Now we find out that we do not have the power to meet its requirements.

Have I addressed everything?