Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The recent Western Development Commission report points out what we all know, that there is no sense of any kind of balanced recovery happening in the economy. Between 2012 and 2014, a period the Minister likes to quote as being a growth-powered time in the economy, employment declined in seven of the 14 sectors in the western region. Across a range of headings, the western region is way behind any kind of regional recovery. The Minister mentioned the Action Plan for Jobs: Regional initiative, APJ Regional, earlier, which sounds like a new airline or something like that. He might update us on where APJ Regional is and whether it is going to take off or crash land.

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