Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Independent)

Is it not true that the Minister's comments have condemned Carrick-on-Suir to becoming a dormitory town with high levels of unemployment into the future? Is it not true that the working groups referred to by the Minister have been unsuccessful over the past number of years? Unemployment is unacceptably and stubbornly high in Carrick-on-Suir, so does this mean this Government, in office for 18 of the last 20 years, has effectively abandoned the town? Is it not time for a high-profile and heavy-hitting task force to be put together for the town?

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