Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have no difficulty in acknowledging that. I realise the market the IDA is in. However, there is a problem when companies do not get to see the majority of the country. They do not get a sniff of what is going on outside Dublin and Cork in terms of client visits. That is the only measure we have.

This comes back to my first question to the Secretary General in terms of the breakdown of the €2.5 billion. I understand a good deal of that money has gone to agriculture. That is great and there has been significant employment growth in agriculture. However, when we meet people from small and medium-sized enterprises who are not involved in agriculture, we hear they are frustrated because they maintain the money is not being lent. I have no wish to know every company that got a loan from Bank of Ireland or Allied Irish Banks but even if we had general headings we could make a call on the action plan and the targets being met. I realise the job of the IDA is difficult but when we consider the nature of client visits, it suggests to me that there will be no change in terms of the actual job announcements and the regional spread of those job announcements in the coming years.