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

Will the Minister publish the submissions received by the Department, as to my knowledge they have not been made available publicly? Will she finalise the terms of reference, as we are dealing with interim terms of reference? The review is supposed to be independent of the Department as well as IDA Ireland and ConnectIreland. Where are we with that review? There seems to be drift. We got past the end of the contract date, when we last raised this and there seemed to be a bit of stonewalling coming from IDA Ireland and the Department, although the Minister was not there at the time. That was so we would get to the point where the contract had expired. There has been much momentum built up and many leads in the pipeline, but we are letting a really good opportunity slide by, all on the basis that IDA Ireland is the golden boy. I am calling out IDA Ireland on its treatment of ConnectIreland, which has been reprehensible. It feels threatened by ConnectIreland, although it should not. IDA Ireland must be bigger than that. We should bear in mind that the Succeed in Ireland initiative addressed the Dublin regional imbalance by bringing in the smaller type of clients that IDA Ireland does not target.

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