Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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615. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of individual site visits in County Donegal organised by the IDA for potential investors in each of the years 2000 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [15944/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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IDA Ireland continues to highlight the benefits of expanding or locating in Donegal to its client base. It is important to remember, however, that the final decision as to where to invest always rests with the company concerned. It is also the case that site visit activity does not necessarily reflect investment potential, as at least 70% of all new FDI comes from existing IDA Ireland client companies.

Site visits nevertheless do represent an important tool through which investors can be encouraged to invest in regional areas - whether to Donegal or elsewhere - and the IDA always does its utmost to ensure that investors consider all potential locations when visiting Ireland.

The following table sets out details on the number of IDA Ireland site visits to County Donegal from 2003 to 2017. Data on site visits before 2003 is not available. Figures for Quarter 1 2018 will be compiled by the end of April.

Table of Site Visits to Donegal from 2003 to 2017