Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 October 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion
5:00 pm
Mr. Kevin Sherry:
As I mentioned earlier, when we sought to get additional resources a number of years ago for high growth markets, including Brazil, India, China and Russia, the Asia-Pacific region and the Gulf region, we received sanction from Government for an additional budget to fund an extra 20 people on the ground. We recruited those people and they are in place. That was an additional allocation. We are still in discussions about the final number, but we have sanction as part of the budget allocation for €3 million and that is 50 people across the Department, Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland. We are in discussions. We have talked to our Department about where we need those people and are in the process of identifying the priorities for those locations depending on the number that is finally agreed.
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