Maria Byrne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I encourage the financial sector to look at Limerick as an option for locating. The Minister of State, Deputy Michael D'Arcy, was in Limerick on Monday and we met many stakeholders in different business organisations. He highlighted that Dublin is at full capacity. He saw for himself that Limerick has a number of available spaces which could encourage financial institutions to come to Limerick.

There was a report in The Irish Timesabout third level institutions and how NUI Galway has the lowest number of female professors and heads of departments, the University of Limerick has the highest, at 31%, but overall the figures for female participation are very low. We have gender quotas for national politics. Something must be brought in to encourage female participation and to encourage females to be at the top in third level institutes.