Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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808. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total annual number of exporting firms broken down between Enterprise Ireland client companies and IDA supported companies over the 2014-2016 period, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11553/17]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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Exports by Enterprise Ireland client companies totalled a record €20.6bn in 2015. The Enterprise Ireland Strategy 2017-2020 is to Build Scale and Expand Reach.  

The strategic aims are to:

- Assist clients to create 60,000 new jobs and to sustain the existing record of new jobs by 2020; and

- Grow annual exports by €5 billion to €26 billion per annum by 2020. Within this, Enterprise Ireland is seeking to increase the diversification of client company exports into new markets, with 2/3 of exports going beyond the UK. This includes a major focus on the Eurozone where the agency is targeting a 50 per cent increase in exports.

IDA Ireland has a client base of 1,318 companies which export 96% of everything they produce in Ireland. Exports by IDA client companies totalled €149bn in 2015.

Enterprise Ireland and IDA records client exports as part of the annual ABR survey. The latest available data is for 2015. The 2016 exports figures will be available in Q2. 2017.

Table 1as follows presents the number of EI and IDA client companies that reported export sales in the 2014 and 2015 ABR survey.