Michael Collins (Cork South-West, Independent Ireland Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. I failed to welcome her to her new role when I spoke earlier. I wish her the very best of luck going forward.

I was very specific in my question. I have raised the same question with the Minister of State's predecessor in the Dáil before, and I received a lot of answers but they were not specific to these places. I am very concerned, especially living on a peninsula myself, about the peninsulas and where the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment focusing on in areas such as the Beara Peninsula, Mizen Head and Sheep's Head. How is the Department creating jobs and what kind of jobs is it creating? These areas have had a downturn in agriculture because farming is going through a struggle at present. Fishing has been decimated in those peninsulas. I see a wave of cars leaving west Cork every morning going to Cork city. There is nothing wrong with jobs in Cork city and I wish the very best of luck to everyone, but as the Minister of State said, 50 jobs were created in one area recently and there are another 115 following an investment of $126 million. What part of Cork were those jobs specifically assigned to?

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