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Regional Economy (Tackling the Recession)

Plan A is to get the plant through. There is not a single Government Minister who disagrees with that. We are all focused on it. Everyone is doing everything that they can, including putting forward the support package, looking at what we can do in the public sector to provide orders—if that can be done—and talking to the company itself. The key point that the company made to me—I think I also made it in answer to an earlier question—is that if we can get the construction sector moving again, demand for the product would rise, and that would lead to more orders for the plant. That is the key thing that I have been asked to do. That point has been made clearly to senior Ministers in Government and it is something on which we have reflected. We may hear more on the matter by Christmas. I think that that is the best way to put it.