Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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288. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency visits here in 2012; the way the figure compares to each of the past five years; the average cost of these visits in 2012 and for each of the past five years; the conversion rate for these visits for each of the past five years; the staff numbers and cost of Industrial Development Agency offices located abroad for 2012 and each of the past five years; the work that has been done with other enterprise development organisations on the island of Ireland to create efficiencies and savings within these foreign offices; the number of IDA visits to each county here for 2012 and each of the past five years and the individual county conversion rates for those years. [42304/13]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Details of the number of IDA Ireland sponsored site visits by potential investors on a county by county basis for each year of the five year period 2008 to 2012is set out in the tabular statement below. (Table1)

I am informed by IDA Ireland that the potential clients visiting Ireland cover their own flight and accommodation costs while IDA Ireland covers the costs of transport within Ireland and meals. These costs are met from within IDA’s Marketing, Consultancy, Promotions and Advertising budget. Details of the Agency’s spend under this heading for each of the years 2008 to 2012, as shown in the Annual Report and Accounts are set out in Table 2.

Details of the number of staff in IDA Ireland’s overseas offices and the cost of running those offices in each of the 5 years 2008 to 2012 are set out in Table 3.

There is no direct co-relation between the number of site visits undertaken in any one year and the number of investments announced in that same year as a potential investor may pay more than one visit to a particular location and negotiations between IDA and a potential client can take a prolonged period of time to conclude .which means that though a site visit may take place in one year the resulting investment may not take place until the following year or later. .Details of the investments announced and the jobs created in each of the years 2008 to 2012 are set out in Table 4.

Where appropriate, IDA Ireland works closely with its sister agency Enterprise Ireland and there is a long history of co-operation between enterprise agencies on both sides of the Border.

Table 1

Showing the number of IDA sponsored site visits on a county by county basis paid by potential investors in each of the years 2008 to 2012

Table 2

Details of IDA Ireland’s Marketing, Consultancy, Promotions and Advertising spend in each or the years 2008 to 2012 as shown in the Agency’s Annual Reports.

2012 – €8,890,000

2011 – €8,909,000

2010 – €9,965,000

2009 – €9,079,000

2008 – €11,169,000

Table 3

Details of the staff numbers in IDA Ireland’s overseas offices in each of the years 2008 to 2012, together with the cost of running those offices in each of the years

Table 4

Showing the number of IDA investments announced and the number of new jobs created in IDA Client companies in each of the years 2008 to 2012