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Regional Action Plan for Jobs

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 December 2018

Tuesday, 18 December 2018

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Billy Kelleher

Question:

303. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when the final refreshed plan for each regional action plan for jobs will be completed and published in tabular form. [52833/18]

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Since becoming Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, I have made jobs and enterprise in the regions my top priority.

The Regional Action Plan for Jobs initiative is a central pillar of the Government’s ambition to create 200,000 new jobs by 2020, 135,000 of which are outside of Dublin. A key objective of each of the regional plans, is to have a further 10 to 15 per cent at work in each region by 2020, with the unemployment rate of each region not more than one percentage point greater than the national average.

In April this year, I asked all the Regional Action Plan for Jobs Implementation Committees to lead a process to refresh and refocus all of the Regional Plans to ensure their relevance and impact out to 2020. This will ensure that the Plans are more strategically focused, that they can be robust to address the challenges we face, including Brexit, and that they continue to deliver jobs across the country.

Each of the Regional Implementation Committees is currently finalising their draft refreshed Plan which will be focused around a number of strategic objectives with accompanying actions to be implemented in the period to 2020. There will be nine separate Plans: North-East, North-West, Midlands, West, Mid-West, South-West, South-East, Mid-East, and Dublin. The refreshed Plans are targeted for publication during Quarter 1, 2019 on dates yet to be arranged.

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