Debate contribution: Job Creation: Ards and North Down
Debate contribution by Mr Conor Murphy on .
- MLA
- Mr Conor Murphy
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 2 December 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Job Creation: Ards and North Down
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4686730
Read the official Assembly record
Text
It does not include a commitment to move investment outside Belfast. It includes a commitment to grow more and at a higher level outside Belfast. It is not about moving anything anywhere but about growing and encouraging more growth. There have been many headlines about foreign direct investment and jobs that have been created. I would also like to see businesses that are indigenous to North Down grow and to give them opportunities to grow their businesses, increase employment and attract more people. If foreign direct investment is available, that will still be an important part of our economic prospectus. We will continue to work with Ards and North Down and within greater Belfast. We will encourage more growth and do more outside that to address regional imbalance issues, as the Executive's Programme for Government has committed us to doing. That does not mean that we will abandon any area or leave it behind.
154 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Assessment
Awaiting analysis
This record has not been analysed yet. It is not counted in any total until it has been assessed.
Disagree with this assessment?
Classifications can be challenged. A person reviews every challenge, and any change is recorded publicly above with its reason.