The Taoiseach was in Drogheda last Friday and, among others, he met with the Love Drogheda Business Improvement District, BID, scheme group. It represents more than 1,500 ratepayers in the town. The group provided the Taoiseach with new and robust economic research data that show the full impact on the local economy and local jobs of the loss of the D Hotel in Drogheda to the tourism sector. The evidence is now in black and white and it is quite stark and concerning. There will be a direct annual loss or impact on Drogheda of €6.16 million and an indirect impact of €15.8 million. This is stark, as I said, and this analysis is being shared with the three local TDs. Last week, the Taoiseach said that he would organise for the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Peter Burke, to meet the group in June to discuss the report. It is a report that needs to be taken very seriously. We need investment now to counter the loss of jobs and business to Drogheda as a result of the loss of the D Hotel and to address dereliction and regenerate the town.

I thank the Deputy. The time is up.

When will the Taoiseach agree to meet the team from the Love Drogheda BID scheme?

I thank Deputy Nash for raising this important matter. I am very eager to meet with that group. I am very happy to do so and I intend to do it in the month of June. Shona McManus introduced its members to me last week and the Deputy has rightly raised this issue on several occasions as well. I thank him for doing that. I am very eager that we invest more in Drogheda. We have a good track record, I think, of working together on a number of issues, including expanding Drogheda Institute of Further Education and the new apprenticeship centre in Drogheda as well. I thought the members of the group were very constructive, pragmatic and clued in and I look forward to meeting them in June.