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Tuesday, 13 May 2014

Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Ministerial Travel

Photo of Terence FlanaganTerence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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331. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of all official foreign trips he and Ministers of State in his Department intend to take between now and the end of 2014; if he will detail whom they will be meeting with on these trips; the purpose of the trip; the duration of the trip; if there are plans to use all of these trips to promote Ireland as a good place for doing business and as a destination for foreign direct investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21861/14]

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Each year my Department coordinates the organisation of a considerable number of Ministerial-led overseas Trade and Investment Missions, which also incorporate high-level meetings with Ministers and officials in the other country. These Missions involve an extensive range of meetings for participant Irish companies with the aim of developing contacts and/or finalising contracts/joint ventures with partner companies in those countries, developing an awareness of Ireland as a supplier of world-class goods and services, and promoting Ireland as an attractive location for Foreign Direct Investment opportunities in the highly competitive marketplace for global mobile investment. Schedules for the second half of this year have not yet been fully finalised, however details of known trips are set out below in tabular format, together with other official foreign trips which are to be conducted in connection with the work of the Competitiveness Council and the EU SME Envoy Group and involve exchanges of information by senior officials and Ministers on a range of topics relating to the work of my Department.

MinisterDateLocation
JuneTrade Mission – China
JuneTrade Mission – South Korea
SeptemberTrade Mission – Australia
OctoberTrade Mission – USA East Coast
Richard Bruton, TD, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise & InnovationNovemberTrade Mission - USA
MayCompetitiveness Council – Brussels
JuneTrade Mission – Switzerland
Sean Sherlock, TD, Minister for Research & InnovationOctoberScience and Technology Ministers' Roundtable Meeting - Kyoto, Japan
MayCompetitiveness Council and Research Council – Brussels, Belgium
JuneEU SME Envoy Group – Madrid, Spain
OctoberTrade Mission – Turkey
OctoberEU SME Envoy Group – Naples, Italy
John Perry, TD, Minister for Small BusinessTowards year endEU SME Envoy Group - Brussels, Belgium

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