Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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147. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Australian companies that IDA Ireland has engaged with in relation to setting up in the State in the years 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [4207/23]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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IDA Ireland engages with many companies and entities in Australia as part of its promotion and marketing of Ireland as a location to do business. My Department officials have confirmed with IDA that this information is confidential.

However, the number of Australian companies located in Ireland as per the Annual employment survey for the years 2020 and 2021 is 28 companies in both years and these companies currently employ in total 1,383.  Data relating to 2023 will be available at the end of the year.

In addition, in 2022 there were 2 announcements by Australian companies of their investment decisions in Ireland as follows:

1. International building services engineering consultancy, Norman Disney & Young  (NDY) [a Tetra Tech Company] announced in May 2022 plans to expand its newly established Irish operation with a commitment to build its technical and leadership team by adding up to 20 staff. 

2. International money transfer and foreign exchange services provider OFX announced in June 2022 the establishment of OFX Payments Ireland Limited as its European HQ in Dublin. OFX expects to create an additional 15 jobs at the Dublin base to manage its European operations.