Joanna Byrne (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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318. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to confirm the foreign direct investment employment recorded in County Louth from 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025. [13831/25]

Joanna Byrne (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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319. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a breakdown of the current IDA business and technology parks available lands in County Louth; and the specific plans for available lands in the Drogheda and Dundalk areas. [13832/25]

Joanna Byrne (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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320. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA-backed industries and Enterprise Ireland-supported companies currently operating in County Louth. [13833/25]

Joanna Byrne (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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321. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons employed by IDA-backed industries in Drogheda and Dundalk from 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025. [13834/25]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 318 to 321, inclusive, together.

At the end of 2024 there were 38 IDA supported companies in Co Louth employing 4,111 people.

As requested by the Deputy, the table below outlines the number of IDA client companies and associated employment figures in County Louth for the period 2020 to 2024. The figures for 2025 will be available upon the completion of the Annual Employment Survey at the end of the year.

The new IDA Strategy, "Adapt Intelligently: A Strategy for Sustainable Growth and Innovation", which I launched in February, is targeting 550 from a total of 1,000 investments over the lifetime of the strategy to the regions. This ambitious target will require continued investment in IDA’s Regional Property Programme for companies locating significant operations here. The availability of suitable property and strategic sites is a critical component of the regional value proposition and to the winning of investments into the regions from both new name clients and from the existing client base.

IDA’s property strategy aims to address regional market failure through investment in enterprise-focused property solutions that meet the needs of MNCs and indigenous clients in support of winning investments. IDA Ireland also partners with Local Authorities for the delivery of advance planning permits in regional locations and invests in significant infrastructure projects across the portfolio of Business and Technology Parks responding to evolving company needs. IDA maintains a focus on acquisition of new landbanks and strategic sites to future proof the ability of the property portfolio in regional locations to support the project pipeline. This targeted forward planning is vital to provide certainty and ensure Ireland has a competitive offering that meets the evolving needs of IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland clients.

The table below outlines the available marketable land on IDA’s Business & Technology Parks in Co. Louth:

In relation to job numbers for specific companies and by town is not available, but IDA-supported companies located in Dundalk and Drogheda, along with their range of employment is shown below: