John Halligan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am not too familiar with the latest updates regarding the Cadbury plant but I will get it for the Deputy within a week and revert to him. The implementation committee is a collaboration between enterprise and public service groups and is led by Caroline Keeling, chief executive of Keelings, with Ronan Harris from Google is vice chairman. The Deputy is very well-known in the area. There is no point in me dishing out ten pages of statistics relating to the particular area. If the Deputy feels there are groupings of people the Department should meet to see how the region is affected, there is no problem with him bringing in interested bodies to meet the Department in August or September. The Minister and I would be delighted to meet the Deputy and any groups in that area to discuss the action plan for jobs, its implementation and how the area can benefit over the next couple of years.

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