Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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281. 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 plan to take between now and the end of 2015; if he will provide the persons he and Ministers of State in his Department will be meeting 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. [48035/14]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Whilst travel for the purposes of trade and investment missions, business meetings etc. will continue to be undertaken as required for the furtherance of the Department’s business interests, a detailed plan of travel in 2015 has not yet been completed. International Travel is also undertaken in order to participate in relevant EU Council meetings in the areas of Competitiveness, Employment and Trade. I would assure the Deputy, however, that I and my colleague Ministers of State use all available opportunities to promote Ireland as an excellent environment in which to do business and that all necessary overseas travel is managed in as cost effective a manner as possible within central Government guidelines.