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

The Deputy mentioned advance factories and those at Sligo, Castlebar and Tralee are all under construction. Those in Galway, Limerick and Dundalk, as well as a further one in Galway, will start their design stage in 2017. Those at Athlone, Carlow and Waterford will follow.

Returning to my earlier comment, job creation is far more important than any site visit. For example, in 2016, the number of jobs created in County Clare, which is a regional and rural area, was 295. The job creation figures in 2016 for counties Donegal, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Limerick, Louth, Mayo, Sligo, Waterford, Westmeath and Wexford were 145, 1,896, 186, 291, 1,634, 453, 181, 190, 697, 185 and 171, respectively. Those are only the IDA Ireland figures. I can also call out all the jobs that have been created in Enterprise Ireland's client companies. It is not a matter of site visits.

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