If the politicians' promises offered in Clonakilty bear fruit, more than 2,000 jobs could be created in one of the most vibrant towns in west Cork.
People in the town are talking about as many as 2,800 jobs within the next seven years.
Naturally, there is some excitement about this. The Minister for Agriculture, Mr Walsh, has turned the sod on a 280,000 sq ft technology park on the outskirts of the town.
The EU's Leader Programme and a local business consortium, drawn from various elements, including the West Cork Task Force, bringing together Fleming Construction, Mr Dan McSweeney, the chief executive of Carbery Milk Products, Prof Kieran Murphy of UCC, as well as Mr Joe Deasy, assistant Cork county manager, among others, are behind the venture. Work is about to start and the first unit should be running within five months. This is going to be a high-tech-led project.
It will come as a major fillip to the increasing number of third-level technology graduates from the west Cork region who, up to now, had to look elsewhere for work.
West Cork interests have persuaded the Department of Education to fund - to the tune of £70,000 - a new computer department at the Clonakilty College of Commerce.
It is reckoned that some 300 west Cork graduates, experts in information technology, are scattered throughout the Munster region. The technology park will mean they will be able to come home again.
One other prediction is that over the next three years, a further 1,500 people from west Cork will qualify in this area. The chairman of Clonakilty Urban District Council, Mr Seamus O'Brien, who, like others, has worked hard at the project, insists it is going to work, because the doughty people of west Cork will make it happen.