Carol Nolan (Offaly, Independent)
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303. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA jobs created by county since 2016, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16533/19]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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My Department and its agencies are working towards ambitious targets to ensure that employment and investment are distributed as evenly as possible across the country. Significant progress is being made with, for example, 58% of all IDA-supported employment now outside of Dublin. This represents the highest number of people employed by IDA clients outside of the capital in the Agency's history.  The last year has also seen more IDA jobs added in the regions than at any time over the past 17 years. I am determined, together with the IDA, to see this trend continue and we will be doing everything possible in 2019 to encourage more firms to invest further in the regions.

The table below shows the number of IDA supported jobs by county from 2016 to 2018.

Table A: IDA jobs by County 2016-2018