Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I commend the Minister, Deputy Bruton, on his work on this to date. Wearing my constituency hat, all along people in Kerry felt disadvantaged because we were left out of that region. In the future we feel we should have a level playing field with everyone else. We have suffered. Tralee and other parts of Kerry have large areas that are industrial wastelands at the moment. A large factor in that has been that we were left out previously. We need to look at this from both sides of the argument. There are counties such as mine that have suffered. In future we need to be given an equal opportunity.

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