Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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295. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of firms from the North that have used each of the services offered to them in the Enterprise Ireland and Invest Northern Ireland agreement of January 2007 by year. [1031/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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An inter-agency Agreement was signed between Enterprise Ireland and Invest Northern Ireland in January 2007. This formalised a working relationship which has been in place over the past decades. Since the agreement, 70 companies from Northern Ireland have availed of Enterprise Ireland Trade Missions/Trade Fair services. Table 1outlines the number of companies involved by year from 2007 to 2015.

Firms from Northern Ireland also have the facility to assess overseas offices. This is managed on an agreement basis per request. Enterprise Ireland is not aware of any such request from a firm from Northern Ireland in the past three years. Records are not maintained on this service provision.

Table 1- Number of firms from Northern Ireland who joined Enterprise Ireland Trade Missions/Trade Fairs from 2007 to 2015.