Vol. 525 No. 2
232 Mr. Finucane asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps taken by the IDA to provide alternative jobs for Kilmallock, County Limerick, following the closure of a plant (details supplied) in 1996; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24087/00]
The attraction of industry to particular locations in the country is a day to day matter for IDA Ireland. The Government, however, is committed to an equitable regional distribution of job opportunities as detailed in the national development plan. In the pursuit of this objective, I have impressed on the industrial development agencies the crucial importance of making even greater efforts to provide employment throughout the country.
The former Neodata building in Kilmallock is a facility suitable for a telemarketing centre and is being marketed as such by IDA Ireland. It has proved difficult to date to attract a telemarketing company to Kilmallock, due to a reluctance on the part of companies to move outside the larger urban centres of Limerick and Tralee in the mid-West.
