Mr. David Byrne:

As my colleague Mr. Sherry mentioned earlier, we had an outstanding year in 2014 with new jobs created. We have 180,000 plus directly employed by Enterprise Ireland clients. In the break-down of full-time job allocation across the regions, Dublin mid-east is the dominant region by virtue of size and scale, but 25% of the full-time jobs in our client base are located in the south region, 12% in the west region, 12% in the mid-west and 18% in the border regions. We are conscious of our region development. In order to keep the focus on job creation in the regions we are engaged in regional strategy development with our parent department. We also engage in entrepreneurial support activities across all regions. We run eight to ten workshops across the regions annually to generate export awareness and export capabilities in companies. We are highly linked in to the local enterprise offices now, providing a seamless transition for companies as they go on a growth curve, regionally based, from the local enterprise office, LEO, straight through to Enterprise Ireland's full service offering support for growth and exports.