IDA’s US base costs €5.4m

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton has confirmed that the costs last year of operating the IDA’s six offices in the US ran to €5.4m.

Mr Bruton confirmed that the total costs of administering the IDA’s 18 overseas offices in 2011 was €10.5m.

He said: “These offices are located in New York, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Irvine and Mountain View in California, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Mumbai, Bangalore, Australia, Russia and Brazil.