Ms Joanna Murphy:

When one of our connectors introduces a company to ConnectIreland, the first thing we do is check that there is nobody else working on that particular lead. As I said earlier, our goal is to add value. What we do is additional. We submit the lead to IDA Ireland and it tells us if it has been in dialogue with that company on a specific project within the past six months. I cannot comment further on that subject other than to say that we were surprised at the volume of companies that were red-lighted to ConnectIreland.