Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We are all aware of significant numbers of financial services jobs being located in towns and cities around the country. I made a different point. I asked about areas which were less well-off and rural areas.

We have not heard, in relation to this Bill, details of lobbying by financial service providers. I do not know what the fees are on the allocation of these particular jobs. The Minister may not know but if he is having a study conducted, in all fairness, we should be told about it in order that we can make an objective decision. In the context of Brexit, there are some people we do not particularly want in Ireland. We want quality companies with quality jobs. We do not want to end up paying significant tax bonuses willy-nilly to persons because leading executives earning large amounts of money come here.

To reassure the Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy, I lobbied very successfully for jobs to go to Wexford at a time when there was little investment coming here.

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