Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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661. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the companies that she had direct bilateral meetings with during the IDA investment mission to the west coast of the USA in October 2016, including the location of each meeting, in tabular form. [7432/17]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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In October last year, I led an investment mission to the West Coast of the US along with the CEO of IDA Ireland, Martin Shanahan. During this visit, I met with over 40 potential and existing IDA Ireland client companies in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Orange County.

Whilst I cannot release details of these companies, due to commercial and client confidentiality, I can confirm that they were mainly in the technology and life sciences sectors and included both established and more emerging businesses.