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

Although IDA Ireland is achieving its target of 50% of its jobs being outside Dublin, we all know the big difficulty is revealed if you take the likes of Cork and Galway, the latter of which is in my region and that of the Minister of State, out of those figures. The figures are very skewed outside of the major cities. The Minister of State mentioned the town of Roscommon, which has not experienced FDI. The urban and rural areas of the town are now both completely supplied with fibre broadband. In fact, there are two fibre networks in the town. The Minister of State referred to a bottom-up approach yet on two occasions the local community there has applied for a digital hub to capitalise on the investment that is being put in but it has been refused investment from the State. These towns need assistance and focused support and that needs to come from the job agencies such as Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland.

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