Written answers

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Foreign Direct Investment

Photo of Timmy DooleyTimmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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616. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of potential foreign direct investment clients that the Industrial Development Agency Ireland has attracted to the Shannon Free Zone in County Clare in the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11450/16]

Photo of Mary Mitchell O'ConnorMary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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IDA Ireland actively promotes the Shannon Free zone – along with the rest of Clare, Limerick and North Tipperary – as part of its Mid-West region. Currently there are 123 client companies of the Agency employing 14,280 staff (Annual Employment Survey 2015) across that area. As part of the restructuring of Shannon Development in 2014, its enterprise support functions were transferred to IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland to ensure continuation of support to both foreign direct investment and indigenous enterprises in the region. Since IDA Ireland has taken over the enterprise support remit, there has been an increase of site visits year-on-year to Clare with five in 2013, nine in 2014 and 12 in 2015. For reasons of client confidentiality and commercial sensitivity, however, IDA Ireland does not provide information on the number of site visits to specific locations.

It should be noted that substantial progress has been made in securing projects for the Mid-West Region over the past 18 months. This includes a new investment by First Data in Nenagh in County Tipperary and the Uber Centre of Excellence in County Limerick.

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