A Wexford TD has received an elevation within his party.
Labour’s George Lawlor has been named the party’s spokesperson on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment.
The former Mayor of Wexford says that he’s looking forward to working on policy development to help drive economic growth and sustainable tourism, but is mindful of the threats coming from overseas:
“I’m delighted to be appointed as the Enterprise, Tourism and Employment spokesperson for the Labour Party by Ivana Bacik this week. It is an extremely important portfolio and its importance, I suppose, has grown in recent times as we see the implications of some of the moves across the water by President Trump in the areas of business and trade – and enterprise obviously is a key component of that.”
In terms of his aims while holding the position, Lawlor said:
“So my focus will be on pursuing enterprise, particularly indigenous enterprise, to ensure that our small local businesses across the country are given every support required and drive policies in both enterprise and indeed tourism, and of course, there will be a expert focus on that. So I look very much forward to getting my teeth into the brief and working with the officials and indeed members of my own party to ensure that we have policies that are attractive to build in enterprise and in tourism.”
Deputy Lawlor also said that Wexford will feature very highly on his agenda while holding the role:
“The BNY Mellon story in Wexford is indicative of some of the problems we may face in the coming years. So the focus for me will certainly be on developing and pursuing and pushing our own indigenous industries to ensure that they have the resources and have the supports necessary to ensure their success long into the future because if we can create our own jobs and sustain our own jobs, we will find ourselves in a much better position and that is particularly true of Wexford.”
