Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In the past four years they have successfully created 40,000 net additional jobs, many of them in start-up companies. Dublin is now recognised as an excellent start-up environment, which has been part of the reason for the successful attraction of the Web Summit. There is such a vibrant environment here for start-ups which has been created by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland. Both agencies have used the Web Summit to identify leads and organise itineraries. This happens all the time. However, when a decision is made to take such a conference to another location, it does not in any way, as the start-up commissioner for Dublin has indicated, diminish the capacity of the city to support strong start-ups. IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland will continue their record levels of performance in the past couple of years. Both bodies have dealt adequately and perfectly with this matter.

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