Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Today we heard the announcement by the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, that she is likely to pursue a hard Brexit option. The financial services industry has a series of structures with the Department and the Civil Service. I would like to know whether or not the Minister proposes to engage through those mechanisms with the likely number of financial services companies that may want to relocate in whole or in part from London to Dublin in the context of the UK making preparations to leave the EU. We could have a considerable gain from getting ready now to take advantage of this likely development and that we could generate jobs not only in the financial services sector in the Dublin region. As the Minister knows, those jobs are spread throughout the country and, for the most part, are very significant and well-paid jobs.

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