Written answers
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
IDA Site Visits
Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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258. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA Ireland client visits to each county in 2017 on a monthly basis, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22640/17]
Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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IDA Ireland maintains statistics of site visits by potential investors on a quarterly basis only. In the first quarter of 2017, there were 173 site visits, up from 136 for the same period in 2016. The table sets out, on a county-by-county basis, the number of IDA Ireland-sponsored site visits for the first quarter of 2017.
Site Visits by County, 2016 and Quarter 1 2017
| County | 2016 | Q1 2017 |
|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 9 | 3 |
| Cavan | 2 | 0 |
| Clare | 18 | 10 |
| Cork | 49 | 9 |
| Donegal | 7 | 1 |
| Dublin | 284 | 82 |
| Galway | 42 | 23 |
| Kerry | 3 | 1 |
| Kildare | 8 | 2 |
| Kilkenny | 10 | 2 |
| Laois | 6 | 0 |
| Leitrim | 8 | 1 |
| Limerick | 49 | 10 |
| Longford | 6 | 0 |
| Louth | 24 | 5 |
| Mayo | 5 | 0 |
| Meath | 8 | 0 |
| Monaghan | 2 | 1 |
| Offaly | 4 | 1 |
| Roscommon | 1 | 1 |
| Sligo | 20 | 2 |
| Tipperary | 8 | 5 |
| Waterford | 17 | 3 |
| Westmeath | 36 | 9 |
| Wexford | 7 | 1 |
| Wicklow | 5 | 1 |
| Total | 638 | 173 |
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