Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

On the economic side, IDA Ireland has significant bases in the US, but in relative terms, compared to some of our competitors it has nothing exorbitant in terms of numbers. Enterprise Ireland has a team in the US, as has the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Tourism Ireland, Bord Bia, the Departments of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. There is a broad spread of such personnel.

I am undertaking the review to which the Deputy alluded. We are reviewing how our resources are spread with a view to getting better value from them, with a very strong economic dimension in focus in terms of the changing world, where we should be and how to best use our human resources in that regard.

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