Councillors call on IDA to fill sites

Cork county councillors are demanding that senior IDA officials address their concerns about the lack of progress in establishing industries on 230 hectares of vacant land which the IDA owns at 14 locations around the county.

Fianna Fáil councillor Frank O’Flynn won widespread support from colleagues when he claimed the IDA was only concentrating its on certain areas of the country and demanded its officials come to County Hall and outline what plans they have for the local sites.

He said there had been considerably less visits to vacant IDA sites in the Cork region in the past two years, compared to the Dublin area.