Mr. John Conlan:

We work extremely closely with our colleagues, both in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the State agencies. Where there are local market teams when the embassy and the agencies come together in the various countries around the world, we lead and facilitate them and chair meetings. We also facilitate trade events and promotional events on the ground in the missions. We find that, much of the time, an agency such as Bord Bia might come to us to say it wants to do a specific team event around an area and asks us for help. We have the network of contacts. We bring the people in and run the event with it. We have a very close relationship. In Dublin, we work very closely with the headquarters staff on what they need, especially on promoting Ireland throughout the world.