Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The challenge is to promote job creation outside of the greater Dublin area. The Minister quoted some of the figures and I will rehearse a couple back to her. In 2016, the County Cavan had only two site visits and County Roscommon had only one. These are two counties out of 26 and it is abysmal for them to receive only three site visits.

The greater Dublin area attracted 45% of all visits. The capital is effectively getting half of the attention from IDA Ireland. IDA Ireland's first objective is to try and get companies to come to Ireland and then it has to try to ascertain where can it fit them in or what location it can sell to them but we must focus on attracting companies to locations outside of Dublin. The spillover effect from Dublin will not wash for the communities outside of Dublin. We need more targeted measures.

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