Call issued to TDs 'to address abandonment of regions by the IDA'

RENUA Ireland has warned that the latest IDA figures reveal 'a pattern of behaviour that is consistent with state collusion with the ongoing abandonment of rural Ireland'.

The party said the figures dealing with 2013 to 2016 explain why the phenomenon of rural flight now a defining feature of the Irish economy.

Stated Mayo party representative Michael Farrington: “ As a sample the latest figures for Mayo show a 76% fall from 2014 to 2016.

“It is indeed thin gruel when compared to the hundreds of millions being lavished on Dublin which is struggling infrastructurally to cope with any more jobs.

“Truly the government is indulging in the economics of the one-eyed king and that eye is set firmly on Dublin.

“Serious questions must also be raised over the performance of our current political elite in Mayo who are doing nothing about this issue. They have utterly failed to protest against an apparent policy to turn rural Ireland into an economic wasteland.

“Not a squeak has been raised whilst we have been denuded of industrial and economic investment and turned into a dumping ground for economic dinosaurs like windfarms.

“RENUA Ireland says it is time to shout stop via a new way of doing things

“It is time to put rural Ireland first and end the scenario where even economic necessities like broadband are seen to be some form of luxury.

“Our politicians have failed rural Ireland and Mayo in particular and its time for Mayo people to take their cue from the late great John Healy and shout stop.”