5 May 2015, 18:01
Representatives from IDA Ireland will appear before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs tomorrow to consider its business activities in developing growth markets.
5 May 2015
The IDA’s current strategy sets out to win 900 new investments for Ireland from 2015 to 2019 spread out regionally across Ireland. Tomorrow’s meeting will have a specific focus on nine key growth countries, including Australia, Brazil, China, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Russia and South Africa.
The meeting will focus on how Foreign Direct Investment can continue play a key role in Ireland’s economic development. As Ireland’s state agency for attracting FDI, the IDA has recently published a new five year strategy. The strategy places a particular emphasis on winning investment for Ireland from key growth countries across the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa.
The meeting commences tomorrow Wednesday 6 May at 10 am in Committee Room 3, LH 2000 and can be followed live here.
Committee proceedings can also be viewed on the move, through the Houses of the Oireachtas Smartphone App, available for Apple and Android devices.
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Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Deputies:
Pat Breen, Fine Gael (Chairman)
Eric Byrne, Labour
Bernard Durkan, Fine Gael (Vice-Chairman)
Seán Crowe, Sinn Féin
Olivia Mitchell, Fine Gael
Dan Neville, Fine Gael
Ruairi Quinn, Labour
Brendan Smith, Fianna Fáil
Maureen O’Sullivan, Independent
Senators:
Mark Daly, Fianna Fáil
Lorraine Higgins, Labour
Michael Mullins, Fine Gael
David Norris, Independent
Jim Walsh, Fianna Fáil