Job Creation
Dail Éireann — 2022-12-13
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Denis Naughten (IND), Roscommon-Galway

Thanks to the Covid pandemic, there is now a realisation that delivering broadband to every home in Ireland has the potential to transform our economy, nowhere more than in rural Ireland. We have witnessed a spike in local house prices as tech jobs have relocated from the Dublin docks to rural townlands, but this happened by default, not design. It is now time to act strategically to bring foreign direct investment, FDI, jobs to every village in Ireland.

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Sitting date: 2022-12-13