Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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250. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the number of new Industrial Development Agency Ireland supported investments in each county and in the case of Dublin in Dublin City, Fingal, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown and South Dublin in each year from 2011 to 2014 inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1184/15]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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In the period 2011 to 2014 IDA Ireland secured 653 investments for Ireland, with a record number of 197 achieved in 2014. For a variety of reasons many companies do not wish for any publicity surrounding a proposed investment and therefore of the 653 investments approved by IDA Ireland less than half, approximately 300, have been publicly announced. As a result it is not possible to provide a breakdown of the total investments by location as requested by the Deputy. The following tabular statement (A) is a listing of those investments announced by IDA Ireland in the period 2011 to 2014.

In relation to the impact of those investments, it is important to acknowledge the natural time lag between an announcement of an investment and the coming on stream of that project which can be between 3 and 5 years in some cases. That time is required for such activities as locating and acquiring a suitable site for the company’s operations, constructing a facility, installing machinery and the recruitment and training of suitable staff.

The level of investments coming on stream is best measured by the number of new jobs created in any given year as recorded in the Forfas Annual Employment Survey. The following tabular statement (B) sets out on a county by county basis the number of new jobs created in IDA Ireland client companies in each year from 2011 to 2014 inclusive.

TABLE A: IDA Ireland – Announcement List of Investments in 2011