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Sen Fidelma Healy Eames has hit out at the continuing high cost of energy, despite a massive drop in the cost of oil.

You will be glad to hear that the whole world is not in recession. As you know, the UAE’s main income has been oil and with a surge in oil prices since 2001, Dubai and the Gulf states have benefited enormously. So much so that Dubai is currently constructing 230 tower blocks in Business Bay, the Manhattan of Dubai, one of which is the tallest tower block in the world, standing at 180 floors. Phases two and three of International City will accommodate and service a population of over one million. Dubailand has 16 theme parks and is set to be three times larger than Disneyworld in Florida.

Jobs and investment will not return to the north west without real reforms at national and European level, businessman and European candidate Declan Ganley has said. Mr Ganley said that his experience in setting up successful businesses in many countries had shown him that the most attractive places to invest and create jobs had certain qualities which the Irish government has allowed to disappear from the north west.