James Bannon (Fine Gael)

Will the Leader invite to the House the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Harney, to debate IDA Ireland's most recent annual report which states the slow down of the past three years is now over and that new types of inward investment projects will come into the country? The midlands region was the victim of a let-down after the last general election when Cardinal Health, which was to deliver 1,300 pharmaceutical jobs to Longford, did not do so. It is important to have a debate on this report and on more balanced regional development, with particular emphasis on the midlands and how it lost out.