Written answers

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation

Job Creation

5:00 pm

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Question 70: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will discuss with the management of the Industrial Development Agency the need to establish an effective local presence in the Tallaght region, Dublin 24 in view of the fact that this highly populated area has suffered from a serious increase in unemployment; if he will stress to the IDA the importance of this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24311/11]

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The location of IDA's regional offices around the country is a day-to-day operational matter for the Agency. I am informed by IDA that its offices around the country operate on a regional rather than a local basis. Tallaght is part of IDA Ireland's East Region and the regional office is located in Wilton Place, Dublin where Tallaght and its environs are actively marketed as a location for Foreign Direct Investment.

South Dublin, including Tallaght, benefits from being part of the largest city in the country and in turn the most successful region in the State. South Dublin has a critical mass of population, skills pool, educational infrastructure, international access connections, and existing business activity across all sectors and is being actively marketed for overseas investment. Dublin in 2010 had 4,821 IDA companies employing 52,830 people.

Tallaght and South County Dublin are well equipped to compete with other areas for potential Foreign Direct Investment, with superb infrastructure facilities at City West and Grange Castle and a Third Level Institute of Technology at Tallaght. Both of these business parks are easily accessible to the population of Tallaght.

Based on the above IDA Ireland has no plans to open an office in Tallaght.

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