Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 4 October 2011
307 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of site visits the Industrial Development Agency and Enterprise Ireland have made to IDA and Enterprise Ireland-supported companies in Dublin North-West in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27282/11]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe relationship between the enterprise development agencies and their client companies is a day-to-day operational matter for the agencies and not one in which I have a function. However I am informed by IDA Ireland that the number of itineraries by potential investors that have been hosted by them in County Dublin between 2006 and the end of 2010 is 492. The data available on site visits is tracked on a county basis. A breakdown of these site visits is set out in the following table.
In the main itineraries for site visits relate to mobile investments, normally from overseas. Indigenous investment is not of its nature very mobile. Enterprise Ireland actively engages with, and is in constant contact with its large portfolio of client companies.
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2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
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Dublin |
90 |
91 |
92 |
90 |
129 |
