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Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 July 2013

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

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Jack Wall

Question:

448. Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs announced by Industrial Development Agency supported companies and by Enterprise Ireland supported companies since 1 January 2013, broken down by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34392/13]

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To date in 2013, Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland have announced approximately 6,500 jobs. Details of the job announcements by IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland are set out in the following tabular statement. These jobs are expected to come on stream over the next three years. It must be remembered that for a variety of reasons, some job creation projects are not announced.

Table I: Job announcements by Enterprise Ireland supported companies since January 2013

NO.

DATE

COMPANY

LOCATION

JOBS

1

6/3/2013

HPSU 2012

Various – across counties

1,600 new jobs over three years in 97 new start ups located across all regions

2

26/3/2013

OnePageCRM

Galway

12 new jobs

3.

26/4/2013

Storm Technology

Dublin & Galway

21 new jobs

4.

26/4/2013

Opensky

Kildare

30 new jobs over 18 months.

5

13/4/13

Glanbia Ingredients Ire Ltd

Waterford/Kilkenny boarder (Belview)

1600 direct and indirect jobs, 450 construction jobs.

6.

2/5/2013

FeedHenry

Waterford & Dublin

100 jobs

7.

24/5/2013

Advant Medical

Galway

34 jobs

8.

24/52013

Cubic Telecom

Dublin

70 new jobs within the next 3 years

9.

24/5/2013

VoiceSage

Dublin

10 jobs over the next 2 years

Table II: Job announcements by IDA Ireland supported companies since January 2013

DATE

COMPANY

LOCATION

ORIGIN

INVEST

JOBS

PROJECT ACTIVITY

09/1/2013

Hauewei

Cork City and Dublin

China

n/a

50

To provide leading customer services to telecoms operators both in Ireland and internationally. Future expansion at the sites will extend R&D functions to cover a wider range of IT software projects.

10/1/2013

Omnipay

Dublin

USA

n/a

30

To develop and extend its global payments processing platform, which currently processes more than one billion transactions on behalf of 31 merchant acquiring banks and payment processors worldwide.

14/01/2013

Vistakon

Limerick

US

100M

300

Expansion of its manufacturing operations and create 100 new highly skilled jobs

29/01/2013

10Gen

Dublin

USA

N/A

60

Creating 60 jobs in Dublin with the establishment of its European HQ

29/01/2013

Etsy, Inc

Dublin

USA

N/A

n/a

Establishing a new EMEA HQ in Dublin – leading online marketplace for handmade and vintage items.

29/01/2013

Loop1 Systems Inc.

Cork

USA

N/A

17

Creating 17 new jobs in Cork with the establishment of a sales, customer support and technical centre providing training and professional services to multinational companies using the SolarWinds Suite of software.

29/01/2013

Whitehouse Analytical Labs

Cork

USA

N/A

35

Analytical testing facility, has chosen Ireland for its first round of international expansion, and is to create 35 new jobs in Cork.

29/01/2013

IMSTech Gmbh

Cork

USA

N/A

35

A provider of manufacturing solutions for the life sciences sector, is to establish a research and manufacturing competency centre in Cork with the creation of 35 highly-skilled jobs.

29/01/2013

PE Lynch

Dublin

USA

n/a

20

A producer of algorithmic trading software for banks and brokers, is to establish its European headquarters in Dublin with the creation of 20 new jobs

12/02/2013

Genzyme

Waterford

USA

44 Million

The investment will increase the site’s diversity of products by adding the filling of Sanofi’s Lantus® (insulin glargine), the number one insulin brand worldwide

14/02/2013

eBay

Dundalk

US

n/a

450

European customer base of the company’s eBay Marketplaces and PayPal businesses with an enhanced experience in the areas of customer services, sales and compliance.

18/02/13

Facebook

Dublin

US

n/a

100

Expansion in a broad range of roles including user operations, advertising, sales, policy and safety.

21/02/13

Quantcast

Dublin

US

n/a

100

Establishment of EMEA Operations Centre in Dublin

27/02/13

Guidewire

Dublin

US

n/a

75

To provide consultancy support and additional product development resources to support Guidewire’s customers

01/03/2013

Worldwide TechServices

Limerick

US

n/a

62

Establishment of a European Headquarters

05/03/2013

FireEye

Cork

US

n/a

150

EMEA Technical Support Centre

21/10/13

Yahoo

Dublin

USA

200

Customer Support, Technology Operations, HR and Finance which will support Yahoos business across Europe, Middel East and Africa

21/03/13

McAfee

Cork

USA

60

Establishment of a Enterprise Engineering Group dedicated to provide fast, efficient engineering responses to sales opportunities for the company. Within this group McAfee will create a number of small specialised engineering teams in Cork that will be responsible for designing and building new features for its key enterprise customers.

20/03/13

Zendesk

Dublin

US

n/a

30

European Data Centre

26/03/13

Zurich

Dublin

USA

n/a

112

The establishment of two new IT hubs which will provide services to the Zurich businesses globally and in Europe. One hub will support Zurich’s IT service management and the other will support Cyber Security Management

27/03/13

Consultancy Natural Power

Dublin

USA

n/a

20

Establishment of their headquarters in Dublin

28/03/13

Nypro

Waterford

USA

n/a

200

Establishment of an additional state of the art medical device manufacturing facility which will manufacture advanced respiratory and injectable devices for global healthcare and pharmaceutical customers.

8/04/13

Novartis

Dublin

Swiss

n/a

n/a

Business Services Centre

19/04/13

Marin Software

Dublin

US

n/a

35

Establishment of their International Headquarters. They are a leading provider of an advertising management platform for search, display, social and mobile,

19/04/13

ACI

Limerick

US

n/a

60

Expansion of their software centre.

01/05/13

Squarespace

Dublin

US

n/a

100

Establishment of its EMEA Centre in Dublin

30/05/13

Fujitsu

Dublin

Japan

n/a

n/a

Fujitsu to undertake a series of collaborative Irish research projects over the next three years as a test bed case to inform the global ICT giant’s future strategy

04.06.13

Prometic

Dundalk

US

n/a

24

24 Jobs added to Global Operations Hub

10.06.13

UPC

Limerick

Europe

n/a

42

European Competency Centre

11.06.13

Groupon

Dublin

US

n/a

20

Experienced Software engineers, computer programmers, data scientists and computational markets fort its software centre in Dublin

13.06.13

EMC

Cork

US

100M

200

The opening of a new EMC office as part of a fresh €100 million investment in Ireland. The new full-time positions, spanning engineering, customer support, sales, finance, research and development and IT.

04.07.13

Becton Dickinson

Louth

US

3.5 Million

28

Investment in new equipment to manufacture state-of-the-art safety needles designed to help protect healthcare workers and patients from medical sharps injuries

11.07.13

Pfizer

Dublin & Cork

US

130 Million

250

Expansion of capacity and begin producing more advanced, complex therapies to deal with some of the most devastating and difficult to cure diseases

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