andMr. McQuillan asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce whether he has received any indication from the Committee of Industrial Organisation as to whether foreign parent companies intend to expand the subsidiary firms here for export purposes should Ireland become a full member of the EEC; or whether they intend to confine their major export efforts to the parent firm.
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The question of discussing with individual firms their plans for adaptation to Common Market conditions is a matter in the first place for the Industrial Re-organisation Branch which I established recently in my Department.
Information so far available from the Branch's contacts with industry or from the surveys carried out by the Committee on Industrial Organisation is not sufficient to enable any generalisations to be made at this stage as to the plans of foreign parent companies for their Irish subsidiaries should Ireland become a full member of the EEC.
Is the Minister satisfied from the information available to him that such a trend is not likely to take place?
I have no reason to believe such a trend will take place.