Protecting Current Industry and Promoting Job Creation

Tier 1 international connectivity in the southern part of the country would present all regional hubs along the Atlantic Corridor (Galway, Limerick, Shannon, Ennis and Waterford) and the South West (Cork and Kerry) region as serious candidate locations for data-centric companies, Internet players and financial services organisations as a European headquarters or back-up locations for their presence in other European locations, whilst at the same time protecting and promoting the competitiveness of indigenous and multinational industry in regional Ireland.