Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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41. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the senior officials of the major tech companies that he met with during his recent visit to the west coast of the United States. [11708/23]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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On 6 February last, I travelled to the US West Coast for a series of high-level meetings with a range of existing IDA Ireland client companies. I was accompanied on the visit by the IDA Ireland Interim CEO. The senior officials of the tech companies which I met were all at C-suite level in those companies.

We had discussions about the technology sector in the first instance and the meetings also covered a range of other topics including :

-Ireland’s commitment to FDI and discussion of client’s operations in Ireland, including contractions in the Technology Sector and plans for the future.

-Legislation on Digital Services and the Digital Market Acts.

-Ireland’s value proposition for potential future investment.

-Irish government policy in areas of interest to international investors.

-The ongoing impact of the war in Ukraine on FDI.

As well as engaging with, and hearing from, enterprise leaders during the visit, I highlighted Ireland’s strong FDI value proposition which remains our pro-enterprise policy environment, highly educated English-speaking workforce and our membership of the European Union.