John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)

The other thing I discovered is that when it comes to attracting a US college or university to this country, there is no co-ordination between the various Departments. Deputy Quinn is absolutely right about that. I know that from my own experience. Although the office of the Minister of State, Deputy Haughey, returned my telephone calls and pointed us in the right direction on two separate occasions, I cannot say that about four other State entities. The telephone call we made to the Department of Education and Science was not even returned. I remind the House that the people in question are willing to spend millions of euro in this country. As far as I can see, nobody in the Irish Government is responsible for co-ordination between IDA Ireland and third level institutions in the US who want to spend money in this country. Nobody is squaring the-----

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