Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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110. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of doubling the footprint of Enterprise Ireland, the IDA, Bord Bia, Irish embassies and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the EU 26, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50926/17]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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Identifying the resources required for each of the bodies referred to in order to carry out their roles effectively is a matter for the relevant Ministers and Departments. Officials in the Department of Finance have not prepared any cost estimates based on doubling their footprints within the EU. I expect that any relevant Department and agency which, after appropriate policy analysis, determines that a change in its level of international representation is required, will carry out a costing exercise and seek altered levels of funding in a future estimates process.