Frank Feighan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I concur with Senator Gallagher's remarks on Féile. My secretary brought a young team to Féile and he was in Derrygonnelly in Fermanagh. He waxed lyrical about the great welcome they got. It is nice to hear such goodwill being spoken about.

On many occasions before Brexit I raised the issue of the European Medicines Agency located in Canary Wharf in London, and that if Brexit happened those 700 or 800 high-quality jobs would have to move away from the UK. I have called for this for the past year. The financial regulator and the European Medicines Agency must come to the island of Ireland. I also believe they must come further west, exactly what Senator O'Donnell has said, and I call for the 700 jobs to be located at the MBNA facility in Carrick-on-Shannon. This is where they should go. I ask the Minister to come to the House and give us an update on where those jobs will go. Are they coming to Ireland? Does he envisage they will go west of the Shannon where they are badly-needed in Carrick-on-Shannon?