Finance Minister Faces Criticism After Failing To Provide Update On Future Of Greystones Media Campus

Wicklow Sinn Féin TD John Brady has described an update he received from Minister for Finance Jack Chambers in relation to progressing the Greystones Media Campus as simply not good enough.

He says it effectively amounts to zero progress being achieved on the development of the campus, after Deputy Brady raised the issue in the Dáil chamber recently.

Two years have passed since it was announced that a €300 million media campus was to be developed in Greystones with a view to opening in 2024.

The campus would have created 450 jobs during the construction phase and would have led to 1,500 at the 44-acre film and TV production site.

Deputy Brady has called for clarity on the issue saying have a responsibility to the Irish taxpayer, and to the people of Wicklow. 

"In the first quarter of this year there were zero IDA site visits to the county, and only two in the whole of last year. There is no government strategy to attract jobs to Wicklow. This is why we cannot afford to allow the government let projects like the Greystones Media Campus to fall."