Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Trade between Ireland and ASEAN Countries (Resumed): Enterprise Ireland
10:00 am
Mr. Kevin Sherry:
I thank Mr. Byrne. Deputy Crowe raised the question of the importance of languages. In these markets languages are critically important. There are a number of elements to that, not least of which is leveraging the new diaspora - students that have come to Ireland for third level education and then return to their countries. These, along with the current international students studying here, are links for us to build on. We encourage Irish companies to build links with them as part of that languages link. I now ask my colleague Mr. Brendan Flood to expand on the languages issue.
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