Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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I understand and completely appreciate what the Deputy has said. I received a similar copy of that correspondence yesterday but it has not been circulated to the committee as it arrived too late. However, we have written to the IDA directly on this topic, following on from the earlier correspondence from ConnectIreland. We want a detailed response on that, and we will forward this documentation to it as well. It will be circulated to the members of the committee shortly. The question that arises is what happens when the questionnaires are not returned. What figure does the IDA take in that instance? I am very interested in the questionnaires that are not signed by the companies and returned. We want to check the verification, but when forms do not come back, we want to know how the IDA comes up with a number. I am sure it has some mechanism to count the jobs in particular companies. We will add that to our list of questions for the IDA. I have no doubt that we will have a detailed discussion when we receive the reply from the IDA and will proceed from there. We will ask the secretariat to encourage the IDA to respond as promptly as possible.

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