Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

President-elect Donald Trump has tweeted on a number of occasions that any business that fires its employees in the United Sates and builds a new factory or plant in another country cannot then expect to be able to sell its products into the United States without retribution or consequences. That is wrong. I note that when the Taoiseach visited Silicon Valley and New York, he met Mayor Bloomberg and representatives of Irish companies and so on.

Has the Minister concerns? Has her Department received additional resources? I asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, about this a few weeks ago, particularly in regard to IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, so he might address the challenge that may be presented by the Trump presidency.

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