Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Fingal is a major employment zone too. Taking the airport as an example, 25,000 people are directly employed on-campus, with about 120,000 indirect jobs in that area. That is how important the airport industrial and economic zone is. Certainly, regarding remote working, specifically for Fingal, last year the local government division of my Department last year allocated €150,000 in funding for a Fingal County Council project relating to sectoral enterprise hubs in this exact area that we are discussing. There are large business towns like Swords and coastal towns as well. We have a large horticultural and food sector too. It is an attractive area not only for Irish investment but for international investment too. I will continue to work with stakeholders and people there to ensure that there are more opportunities. We have pretty much full employment in our economy right now, with 2.75 million people working in the economy due to the economic policies that this Government has pursued and the hard work of our people.

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