Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Absolutely, we have had a couple of trade missions to the area already. The south by southwest, SXSW, IT conference is a huge gathering and last year we had a number of EI companies pitching for investment at that conference. We have opened up in the south east, in Florida and North Carolina and now Atlanta and Austin are two new areas outside of the traditional US markets where we increasingly see Irish enterprise going.