Senator John McGahon- speech from 24 Nov 2022
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Oh, thanks very much Cairlock. Last year, last week actually in my hometown of Dundalk, Minister Simon Harris came for an announcement of 11 million euro for the Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre and that's brought to a total of 25 million euro that the government have provided to it and what this centre is doing, it's the only centre of its kind on the island of Ireland and it's the brainchild of Martin O'Brien who's the chairperson of the Loudmeath Education Training Board and really what it is doing is it's allowing Ireland to make sure that we can compete at an international level when it comes advanced manufacturing, that we can compete in the new areas of technology, jobs and innovative science and creation, stuff like green technology, stuff like cyber security and really what we have done in Dundalk and the part of the North East is provide I believe Leader the blueprint that other parts of Ireland should follow and I think it would be really really important that we have these one of an advanced manufacturing training centre in each region of Ireland so the North East, the North West, the South East, the South West because it's only how we as a nation can we as a nation can we get much stronger by providing that information and showing other parts of the island of Ireland how to do it. So what I think would be really useful at some stage in the new year would be to have a debate on the advanced manufacturing sector in Ireland, what we can do to enhance that and what we can do to be able to compete at a wide scale international level because what this has done is it has allowed us to mitigate against some of the effects of Brexit by making sure that we are trained up in certain sectors, it's also allowing us to compete with a very volatile international market as well and the stronger the Irish economy is the better. So I really appreciate the debate about how we can use the blueprint that has become very successful in Dundalk and how we can replicate that across the island of Ireland. Thank you. Thank you.