The IDA has entertained over 100 potential investors in online site visits this year, as part of efforts to secure more foreign direct investment into Ireland.
15 visits have been to sites in Clare, but some of those have been in a virtual sense.
Interest in Clare from potential foreign investors remains strong, in spite of COVID-19.
Fifteen companies paid site visits here in the first nine months of this year, which is down from last year’s whole-year total of 28 but is ahead of 2018’s figure of 13.
Nearly half of site visits are now taking place virtually, however, with Tanaiste Leo Varadkar telling the Dáil that the IDA has developed an E-Site Visit experience as part of a range of digital content.
There’s no breakdown on the split of in-person and online site visits in Clare.
Such visits are a key step as part of a company’s decision-making process on deciding to invest in a given area.
