Mr. Dermot Mulligan:

There are usually a mix of factors involved when a company decides on a location. It will consider whether there is a pool of talent and skills available, if there is housing locally and road links. The company will also consider its workforce and whether its employees will want to live in Castlebar or if they all want to live in Dublin. There is usually a mix of factors. If one looks at the numbers in terms of the growth of employment outside Dublin, not just in Enterprise Ireland supported companies but also multinationals, they show that we have been very successful. The strategy of building advance offices that people can visit before locating in them is working. There were a number of visits to the facility to which the Deputy referred and other available facilities.