Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Is there any chance of a few bob for a microphone because somebody's microphone must not be working in view of all this roaring? Here is a fact for the Minister; the EU has downgraded the Border, midland and western, BMW, region from developed to a region in transition after an independent analysis of the GDP figures for the period 2015 to 2017. This proves what we all know but we now need to act. Are opportunities available for that? The Minister cannot do this on his own. We need a whole-of-Cabinet approach to rebalancing regional growth in this country. Those figures show that it is not happening.

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