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

I acknowledge that Deputy McLoughlin and I have had numerous conversations in County Sligo. County Sligo is close to my heart because while my family is from Galway, most of them live in County Sligo. Enterprise Ireland, InterTradeIreland and the LEOs are all working hard to ensure that jobs are landed. A wonderful new IDA advance factory has been built in Sligo and I am hopeful that we will be able to land a good company there with sustainable jobs.

The Deputy also asked me if site visits were being followed up. The IDA follows up every lead, as I have seen for myself when I am with them. I cannot answer the question fully because it is commercially sensitive and so I could not possible tell the Deputy what companies will decide to invest in Sligo. However, not only are we conducting site visits there but we are also talking to companies to make sure that if they want to expand they will be helped to do so. We will continue to do that. There are excellent people in Sligo from the IDA, Enterprise Ireland and the local enterprise office. There is also an excellent chamber of commerce and trading community.

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