Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would be delighted to do that and I welcome that. I also hope that the IDA will liaise with all our local agencies, particularly with Fingal County Council, as it is in Fingal, under manager Paul Reid. I hope it will liaise with Dublin City Council, Dublin City University, the education and training board and all the other agencies, in particular some of the local development agencies. I am thinking in particular of Coolock Development Council, of which I have a been a board member for the past 30 years.

Vis-à-visrecent discussion, probably the greatest head the IDA ever had was Padraic White. Padraic voluntarily chaired our council for the past 27 years and was fantastic help to the north Coolock area and the general northside area in liaising with local business in Clonshaugh and so on. We want to keep these linkages.

A few weeks ago I was at the 40th anniversary dinner of Allergan. Allergan is an amazing American company on which the Taoiseach made a very good speech. Allergan is in Westport and in Coolock, with two major facilities employing a couple of thousand workers. That is the kind of thing we need to encourage into the future. We are very anxious to have Belcamp, which used to be called the Fingal industrial park, going ahead in this region where maybe another 25 or 30 homes are going to be built, it is hoped, over the next few years.

Swords will grow to a city of, perhaps, 100,000 people given the second runway and so on. We need the industrial park.

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