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

I thank the Minister of State for his reply. The reality is that the State is investing significantly in building communications infrastructure right across this country. By the middle of next year, 58% of households in Ireland will have access to a pure fibre connection but the difficulty is that we now need to exploit the investment to bring high-value jobs into every single community. This happened by default during the Covid pandemic. As we know, IDA Ireland is now redoubling efforts to bring the jobs back to the city centres rather than disperse them across provincial Ireland. What is the specific job strategy now in place to try to drive some of the FDI jobs into rural communities?

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