Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Based on what the Minister of State has said, we are going to get an outline of a strategy in the coming months which probably will not see much action before the end of the life of the Government. Would the Minister of State agree that the Government is failing our region given that we have fallen so far behind the other regions, resulting in rural decline and a lower rate of employment than any of the other regions and we far too dependent on foreign direct investment such that the indigenous sector has not seen any growth worth talking about? Therefore, the strategy of the Government has failed the western region in this regard.