Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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97. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to host a trade mission to the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33666/15]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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I am due to travel to the East Coast of the U.S. later this month. This visit will focus primarily on maintaining and encouraging foreign direct investment into Ireland. Since taking office in 2011, I have completed 28 major trade and investment missions. At the heart of our jobs plan has been growing employment in the exporting parts of the economy. Key to this has been growing the performance of companies supported by my Department through Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland. In order to achieve this, we have put in place a range of new measures including doubling the number of Ministerial led trade missions, extra staff for Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland in overseas markets along with tax incentives to make it easier for exporting Irish companies to grow their sales overseas.