Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----over five years for the bioanalytical company, Eurofins, in Dungarvan. The solution to the problem is to make sure that jobs come into the area. The Deputy has made very fine points that the area is above the national average, and even in parts of his own constituency it is way above that again. I will be making sure that happens.

If the Deputy does not mind, I wish to mention exactly what is happening on the implementation group that is there. The implementation group is made up of people from the local authorities, an industrial ambassador, Enterprise Ireland, the local enterprise offices, interested stakeholders and IDA Ireland. They are all at the table. If the Deputy is aware of empty office space, he should feed that information into that implementation group. The more information that we have on the ground from the stakeholders in the area, the better and the easier it is.

As the Minister, while it is great having IDA Ireland coming in with hundreds of jobs as well as Enterprise Ireland, I am also very conscious of the small businesses that want to flourish and need to be supported. For those who want to start their businesses, it is also important that there are supports in place.

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