Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

The company will seek to recruit approximately 200 staff per year, both graduates and non-graduates, for the next five years. The development of community based enterprise centres is a crucial part of the drive to create new regional enterprise. Enterprise Ireland provided support of €54,852 in 1998 for the setting up of the enterprise centre in Carrick-on-Suir. This centre has been sold to a private developer and the proceeds of that sale have been invested in a new community resource centre for the town. The community enterprise centre is now incorporated into a state-of the-art resource centre. A high quality training facility is now at the heart of the community enterprise centre and should bring long-term benefits to the town. The unemployment rate for the south east, according to the latest quarterly national household survey, is 6.7%. The latest CSO live register analysis shows that those claiming unemployment benefit in south Tipperary fell to 3,238 in December 2005——

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