Ms Mary Buckley:

We have nine offices in six locations in the Asia Pacific region, including Bangalore and Mumbai in India and Japan. We also have representation in Singapore, Korea and Australia where we are very well represented. We have been marketing in Asia in the past six years. It is a market in which we have had some wins and on which we are very focused. Huawei, Sumitomo and ICBC, to name but a few, are some of the companies we have attracted here. From a foreign direct investment perspective, many of the companies located in Singapore are broadly similar in the sense that they are subsidiaries of corporates located in other parts of the world which are targeting the Asian market. Many of them also have operations in Ireland. Singapore is a competitor of ours, but we have a presence there to actively promote Ireland as an investment location.