Electronic industry exports and diversification
Electronic and computer equipment accounted for 22.7% of industrial exports; Brennan asked about dependence on the sector and diversification, which the Chair said fell to another Minister.
asked the Taoiseach the proportion of total industrial exports for 1984 accounted for by the electronic and computer industries.
Comment on this
(Dún Laoghaire): Provisional figures for the period January-October 1984, the latest period for which information is available, show that exports classified to divisions 75 and 76 of the standard international trade clasification, which comprise office machines, data processing equipment, telecommunications equipment and sound recording and reproducing equipment, accounted for 22.7 per cent of exports of all industrial produce.
Comment on this
I welcome this investment and development. I should like to ask the Minister of State if he is aware of the trend that this is now forming a hard core of our total manufacturing sector? Is the Minister of State looking at the possibility of diversifying the nature of our dependence on this area?
