Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail)

-----17 youngsters are gone. The club is struggling. These are the facts and it is time the Government grasped the nettle. I am not suggesting it should force industries which want to locate in this country and provide valuable jobs to locate in particular areas; nor am I in any way casting aspersions on those areas in which jobs have been created. What I am saying is that the Government has a responsibility to do something, as did the last Administration, which failed miserably in that regard by bringing forward a spatial strategy that was never really implemented. I know the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, is amenable to coming to this House on a regular basis. I, therefore, ask the Leader, the next time the Minister comes to the House, to alert him to the fact that we want to talk to him about industrial policy and dispersal to the regions.