Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will. If we look at towns such as Roscommon, they are reliant on indigenous employers. However, the supports for employers with more than ten staff are only focused on the export sector and the issue of import substitution is ignored. This strategy needs to change post-Covid, particularly when we have seen the threats we have had to supply chains. Will the Tánaiste review that?

Second, before the end of this decade, this country will have the most geographically extensive web of pure fibre telecommunications network in the world. This will be developed all around the major provincial towns within the next 18 months. We need a new national and international strategy to attract inward investment into those provincial towns which have a unique offering.

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