Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)

I do not know what he is doing there. Those are the important towns. I appreciate we are marketing them as a triangle and I advocate that is the way to proceed. Will the Minister give a solemn commitment that he, Enterprise Ireland and the IDA will leave no stone unturned to ensure that a positive development takes place in Mullingar in a 70 acre industrial park which is well developed and geographically centred? While we have good access what is important for the people the Minister spoke with in the US is that an airport is located near at hand. I know that one has been mentioned for Horseleap which is on the Longford-Offaly border. I hope that happens. One of the disappointments is that the former Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds, did not develop Abbeyshrule, on the Westmeath-Longford border. Does the Minister agree that is critical in the context of developing the ATM region?

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