Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)
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71. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of companies that are registered here with the Companies Registration Office in 2017 that are deemed to be an external company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31053/17]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Companies Registration Office (CRO) is the statutory authority for registering companies in Ireland and is the central repository of public statutory information on Irish companies.

As of the end of June 2017, the number of Irish companies on the register of companies was 209,886.  The number of external companies on the register of companies was 2,706, comprising 1,842 European Economic Area (EEA) companies and 864 from non-EEA countries.

Statistics for previous years on the make-up of the register of companies and activity on the register of companies throughout a year are published in the Annual Reports produced by the Companies Registration Office, which may be accessed for free on the website www.cro.ie.