Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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214. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits since 2011 sponsored by IDA Ireland to Dublin that also visited Cork and to Cork that also visited Dublin, in the context of the agency’s Horizon 2020 strategy; and if the target of 50% of investments to be located outside Dublin and Cork will be reached. [19705/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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IDA Ireland's primary regional development goal, as set out in its current strategy 'Winning: Foreign Direct Investment 2015-2019', is to increase investment by 30% to 40% in every region of Ireland. Real progress has been made towards that target over the first three years of this strategy with half of all jobs created by IDA client companies since 2015 located outside Dublin.

IDA Ireland collates data on the number of site visits to individual counties only.  It does not, on account of client confidentiality and commercial sensitivity, release details of the specific itineraries of potential investors. Information on whether visits included both Cork and Dublin elements is therefore not available.  I set out in the table, however, details of the annual number of site visits to Dublin and Cork from 2011 to Q1 2018.

Site visits to Dublin and Cork 2011 to Q1 2018