Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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302. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA jobs created per county here in 2017 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6045/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Regional development is a key priority of mine and I am focused on increasing investment in every county in Ireland. The IDA shares this objective and I am pleased that its results for 2017 show that half of all job approvals last year were for locations outside Dublin. There are now over 122,000 people employed across 649 firms in IDA client companies outside of Dublin and I look forward to working closely with the Agency and across Government to attract further foreign direct investment into regional locations in 2018.

The following table provides a detailed breakdown of employment by IDA Ireland client companies for 2017: