Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for those details. How stand the specific regional enterprise plans? Many of them came to their conclusion in 2020. Will they be renewed and put back in place?

The Minister of State mentioned a lot of macro stuff which was irrelevant. I will try to give him a sense of real broadband issues. A leading domestic and international exporting company has been in a small town for nearly 90 years. It cannot get access to proper broadband to allow it to e-tail the company and provide a better service to its customers, both retail and wholesale. The relevant town will not be included in the national broadband plan for several years. Those are the day-to-day challenges facing enterprises in our regions.

In the context of Brexit, the Minister of State mentioned the customs courses. What specific programmes are in place for companies in the west and in the Border region who face the disadvantage of challenging companies which have the best of both worlds, as it were, in Northern Ireland?

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