Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are seeking to put together a regional enterprise framework to integrate the Enterprise Ireland plan for regions and local enterprise offices. We are seeking to get local stakeholders behind a combined strategy, identifying where the competitive strengths of the region are and looking to build on them. That conversation is important and now that we have local enterprise offices embedded in the local authorities under service level agreements with Enterprise Ireland, we have a much better framework within which to have that important debate.