Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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An important element of the IDA’s strategy is to diversify its market reach by broadening the geographic profile of investment. To support this objective, a ‘Pioneering Markets’ team was established within the Growth Markets Division of IDA Ireland in 2019, tasked with extending IDA’s global footprint. This approach has been supported by the appointment of a number of in-market part-time business development consultants located across multiple geographies including South America, South Africa, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and during 2022, Israel.

These consultants identify target companies with potential for investing in Ireland, engage with senior decision-makers in these companies and promote Ireland as an inward investment location.

The following table summarises the locations of IDA Ireland’s business development consultants since 2022.

Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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Enterprise Ireland is the Irish Government’s agency responsible for the development and growth of Irish companies in global markets.

With 39 offices worldwide, Enterprise Ireland’s team of international market advisers work with Irish companies to accelerate their exports across the globe. In addition to these market teams, and to best serve the wide range of Irish client company requests across the globe, Enterprise Ireland also engages external consultants/pathfinders to support their client needs. These external consultants/pathfinders supplement their direct overseas capability providing clients with valuable connections, market and regulatory insights as well as sectoral and functional expertise.

The following is a list of export markets where Enterprise Ireland engaged external consultants/pathfinders in 2022/2023/2024 to support the needs of Irish client companies.