Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to share time with Deputy Naughten.

I welcome the opportunity to contribute and I also welcome the Minister's announcement earlier that he anticipates the creation of 10,000 jobs following this regime change. This will be welcomed by everybody in rural Ireland, which has not experienced the best of fortunes over the past few years. He said that on the Dublin road out of Cork, there is a €80 million plant and on the Limerick road, there is a €130 million plant but, sadly, he did not make announcements relating to when he took the Boyle road out of Carrick-on-Shannon or the Roscommon road out of Ballinasloe. I did not hear any announcement relating to the west and I would like an emphasis to be put on that.

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