Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Can the submissions that have been made be published? They should be published if they can be. I appreciate that a review is ongoing but how long will it take? This project was shut down in March and there is no legal impediment to the Department providing a bridging contract until a new tender is won. I have concerns about how the review was conducted from the start. I sent a parliamentary question to the Minister this morning and was not happy with her response. We were contacted to be told there was no email address for submissions on the website. The website has been down for a number of weeks and no submissions have been published. Nobody is dissing IDA Ireland but we are expressing our concern about the way it has treated Connect Ireland. IDA Ireland has not acted responsibly.

As the Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation was examining the Succeed in Ireland initiative, we were provided with the number of jobs created, to guide members on the effectiveness of the programme. Connect Ireland provided a much larger number of jobs, at over 2,000, but IDA Ireland disputed this figure, stating that only 535 were created and that a portion had not yet been verified. The day after the Succeed in Ireland programme was shut down, a number of jobs were verified so they could not be included in official tallies or for the committee's consideration, making the programme seem less successful than it had been. When will the review be published?

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