Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to bring the Taoiseach back to the programme for Government, specifically the strong emphasis it puts on balanced regional development. I know he has spoken to me before about this previously. Recent Central Statistics Office figures show that 700 people living in County Roscommon must get on a train or a bus or into a car every day and travel to Dublin for work. Imagine if the Taoiseach were to announce today the opening of one enterprise or two or three enterprises with 700 jobs in Roscommon. It is shocking that so many people from rural Ireland must travel constantly to Dublin, where the whole place is-----

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