Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for that answer. In March of last year, the south-east regional enterprise plan, covering counties Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford, was launched. It is one of nine new enterprise plans throughout the country that will be funded, I understand, by up to €180 million. This funding is to drive the implementation of plans that will develop and implement collaborative and innovation enterprise projects in the regions and support sustainable jobs. I have written to IDA Ireland requesting an urgent meeting with it and the Carlow local authority because I am concerned that there has been an enormous lack of IDA Ireland visits to my county of Carlow. I know that site visits do not necessarily reflect potential investment as a significant percentage of new FDI comes from existing IDA Ireland client companies. However, we have a brand-new beautiful building on the Dublin road and a fabulous new IDA Ireland park. I am trying to get information about whether it has clients, who is going in or what is happening but I do not know. I am here today looking for information from the Minister of State on this brand-new IDA Ireland park.

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