Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

The Limerick-Shannon gateway has had this access in the past, as have Dublin and Cork, but other gateways have made considerable progress without this advantage. Galway, the dearly beloved city of Deputy Higgins, has been significantly more successful than Limerick-Shannon at attracting inward investment since the upturn of the economy in the early 1990s.

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