Kieran’s Comments to the Chamber, Cork City Council Meeting, 6 December 2010

On the quarterly Cork Economic Monitor:

“27,000 unemployed, over 120 vacant premises in the city centre, a decrease in tourism – there seems to no sign of any revised regional plan or emergency plan to deal with the crisis. We need to respond to the crisis. There is a need to reassess our way forward. There is a need for new ideas to come forward. The City needs to be more pro-active than ever before in terms of its regional development. We need to step up our attack on encouraging enterprise and encouraging ideas to bring the city forward economically and socially.”