Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

This is clearly a story of exclusion. The Minister has certainly make decisions and choices but those he has made have excluded every town in County Tipperary from the regional strategy. As I stated, those towns have significant levels of unemployment. The unemployment rate in Carrick-on-Suir is double the national average. There is no site or advance factory there. In Nenagh and Roscrea, there are sites but no advance factories, and there are no proposals for the latter. The same applies to Thurles and Tipperary town. The Government needs to ensure County Tipperary is not forgotten and, specifically, that the building of advance factories in the county is undertaken immediately.

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