Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Will the Minister comment on the potential to treble our volume of trade with China? We could also double or treble the number of Chinese students who come to Ireland and have a foreign exchange programme for Chinese and Irish students. Tralee Institute of Technology has a good quota of Chinese students and it is only one such example of an Irish educational institution. I understand there are approximately 3,000 Chinese students in Ireland and believe we could increase that number to 30,000, which would represent a huge investment in the economy.

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