Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy cited figures and I will cite some as well. For example, in 2016, the site visits to County Clare, about which the Minister of State, Deputy Pat Breen will be delighted, numbered 18; while those for counties Galway, Kildare, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Limerick - the Deputy's native county - Louth, Sligo, Waterford and Westmeath numbered 42, eight, ten, eight, 49, 24, 20, 17 and 36, respectively. The Deputy mentioned Cavan, for which there were two visits. Certainly, there are regional site visits but it is rather silly to be talking about site visits here as we should be talking about jobs created. As I noted earlier, jobs often are created in companies located in the county anyway. One should not equate a site visit with job creation.

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