Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland

11:40 am

Mr. Barry O'Leary:

No. Actually, the ambassadors in Paris, Germany and London, in particular, are very active. We have a dinner coming up in the Irish Embassy in London in the first week of October, for example. We are using the Embassy as a draw to try to attract 25 to 30 clients, with a mixture of existing and potential clients, particularly some whom we have found it difficult to access. We will do that, but it is not the main stream. We might organise one or two such dinners per year.