Frank Feighan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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303. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of companies located at the business and technology park in Roscommon town; the profile of those companies; the efforts the Industrial Development Agency has made in the past three years to attract investors to the park, including current active leads; if he will provide details of current active leads; the plans the IDA has to attract investors to the park in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4422/15]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by IDA Ireland that the following three indigenous companies are located at the Business and Technology Park in Roscommon Town.System Label, an Enterprise Ireland client company, specialises in the manufacture of Technical Labels, Safety and Instruction Labels, for the Medical Technologies, Electronics and Automotive sectors. Cubis Industries, another Enterprise Ireland client company is a subsidiary of CRH, and manufactures preformed access chamber systems for utility markets e.g. power and water companies, rail and road developers and telecommunications. Tubbercurry Engineeringprovides mechanical engineering services to industrial projects including the Commercial, Retail, Industrial and Pharmaceutical sectors and companies.

In the past three years, 2012 to 2014 inclusive, there have been a total of 4 IDA Ireland sponsored site visits by potential investors to County Roscommon, all of which took place in 2013. IDA sponsored itinerary visits by potential investors include visits to multiple locations where there are greenfield or current turn-key property solutions for them to consider. The majority of these solutions, with the exception of Dublin and to a lesser extent Cork, are usually situated on the outskirts of towns and cities.

For reasons of client confidentiality and commercial sensitivity, such as the potential impact on any future property transactions that may arise from a possible investment, it is prudent to provide details of such visits on a county by county basis only. IDA Ireland has assured me that the Business and Technology Park in Roscommon has been marketed by IDA Ireland over the past number of years for appropriate mobile investment and I am assured that will continue in the future, as appropriate.

While for similar reasons, IDA Ireland does not comment on upcoming site visits or on current or upcoming pipeline, the Agency has informed me that it is confident that it will be in a position to make an announcement relating to an investment in Roscommon before mid-year.I am sure that the Deputy will appreciate that it would not be appropriate for me to comment further at this stage.

As the Deputy is aware, the Action Plan for Jobs 2015 was launched on Thursday last, 29^thJanuary. This is the fourth annual plan in a multi-year process, which started in 2012. When the First Action Plan for Jobs was launched, unemployment stood at 15.1%.Today it stands at 10.6% and we are on track to exceed our target of 100,000 additional jobs by 2016. We are now setting a goal to bring employment to 2.1 million by 2018 – 2 years ahead of our original target.

We are determined that every region will benefit from the recovery and we will be announcing over the coming weeks and month a series of actions to help drive the achievement of this goal.