O’Keeffe ‘has heard people’ over lack of IDA-led visits

ENTERPRISE Minister Batt O’Keeffe said he has “heard what the people of Waterford have had to say” in terms of the lack of IDA-led visits to the south-east, which has the highest unemployment levels in the country.

Figures released by the Central Statistics Office earlier this week revealed that unemployment has trebled in the region in the last two years.

The figures revealed that unemployment increased from 6.1% in June 2008 to 18.1% in June.