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

I hear the Deputy. She knows that I have met the Cavan and Monaghan groups and the Deputies from the area. The figures from the IDA are not great but in Monaghan there are 5,168 jobs supported by Enterprise Ireland. That is also an agency under my aegis. There are 903 jobs supported by the Local Enterprise Offices, LEOs. It is the same kind of story in Cavan where there are 1,162 LEO jobs and 5,221 jobs from Enterprise Ireland. I know the Deputy might not be getting it from the IDA but I am really pushing. I know that it is the policy of the IDA to make sure that companies that come looking in Ireland go to visit the regions, but honestly it is the chief executives that decide where they will visit. I will keep pushing however.

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