Meath West TD Damien English welcomes Fine Gael family to Trim for this year’s party Think In

Fine Gael TD and Minister for Business, Employment and Retail, Damien English, has today welcomed Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and his parliamentary party colleagues to Trim in County Meath for the Party ‘Think In’ ahead of the Dáil for the Autumn legislative programme.

Minister English, who represents Meath West, was keen to highlight that County Meath is home to both the current All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football and the All-Ireland Minor Football champions, and that plans are underway to use these successes to capture more titles in Croke Park in the years ahead.

Minister English also pointed out that Meath is home to the Boyne Valley and some prominent stops along ‘Ireland’s Ancient East’, including Trim Castle, The Hill of Tara, Loughcrew Cairns, Kells High Crosses and Slane Castle.

Minister English said “Brú na Boinne, which includes the passage tomb of Newgrange, is a most impressive structure.  5000 years ago, Meath was at the cutting edge of innovation in Europe. The best skilled workers, engineers and entrepreneurs in Europe were working together to build these amazing megalithic structures at Newgrange.

“That building was precisely aligned to flood the inner burial chamber with light at dawn on the shortest day of the year.  Their work demonstrates just how innovative and collaborative our remote ancestors were.”

He added, “As we head into this Dáil term, on the Enterprise & Employment front, Fine Gael in Government will work together to continue building a more balanced and resilient enterprise and jobs-led post-pandemic economy.

“We will draw on that collaborative and innovative approach by our ancestors to deliver balanced regional growth through the new and soon to be launched Regional Enterprise Plans.

“This is central to the Programme for Government (PFG) and will include our talented workforce, businesses, entrepreneurs, our enterprise agencies; especially the local enterprise offices in each county, Enterprise Ireland, the IDA and our further and higher education centres.”

He concluded by saying, “We will also pursue an ambitious autumn legislative programme between now and the Christmas recess to better support employees, employers and consumers in Ireland, including the Statutory Sick Pay Bill, Right to Request Remote Work Bill, Employment Permits Bill, Competition (Amendment) Bill and the Consumer Rights Bill,” Minister English added.