Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary)
2:10 pm
Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Absolutely, we have had a couple of trade missions to the area already. The south by southwest, SXSW, IT conference is a huge gathering and last year we had a number of EI companies pitching for investment at that conference. We have opened up in the south east, in Florida and North Carolina and now Atlanta and Austin are two new areas outside of the traditional US markets where we increasingly see Irish enterprise going.