Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

How do the new regulations affect our competitiveness in attracting foreign direct investment and supporting our own businesses in comparison to other EU countries? How does it affect our capacity to compete with other locations for foreign direct investment, such as Singapore?

Some counties within existing regions do not experience the same level of investment. For example, Meath does not experience the same level of investment as the mid-east region. It suffers greatly with regard to level of investment in Kildare, Wicklow, Dublin and Louth, even though Louth was formerly in the BMW region. What elements of change in the new regulation will allow those sectors of those regions to have a rebalancing of their opportunity to attract foreign direct investment?

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