Ms Julie Sinnamon:

Yes. If one takes, for example, the Food for Health Ireland research centre, it involves all the key dairy players, involving University College Cork, University College Dublin, Teagasc and so forth. Many of these projects cross many universities and colleges. We will submit a full list to the committee of who is involved in them later. Limerick has the largest number of projects, meaning they are largely based outside Dublin.

On the job announcements, it is a key focus to raise the profile of Irish enterprise, so that at least it is on a level playing field. Eishtec was a particularly interesting example of this. When it made its last job creation announcement, making it the fastest growing start-up in the history of the State, no news media turned up on the day because it thought it was a re-announcement. Eishtec was adding 250 jobs but had already done 250 jobs six months before. Accordingly, no news reporters actually turned up except some local journalists. It is constantly a battle to ensure Irish enterprises get the profile they deserve. That is why I will use every opportunity to raise this because they are the champions in every town and village. Most people do not even know they are even there. It is an issue which has been raised at our board level and there is a focus on trying to address that.