Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 10 October 2013
18. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new posts supported by the Industrial Development Agency that were to be realised in 2013; and the number of such posts that are in place to date. [42586/13]
View answerThe Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains and losses in companies that are supported by the enterprise development agencies and figures for the number of jobs created in IDA Ireland client companies in 2013 will not be available until the end of the year. There is usually a time lag of between three to five years between an announcement of an investment and the jobs coming on stream, though this is not always the case. During 2012 there were 88 investments announcements by IDA Ireland client companies, with the potential to create in the region of 8,000 jobs. It should be noted that not all jobs announced in a given year actually materialise in that calendar year for a variety of reasons, including delays with projects. Even so, the number of new jobs created in IDA Ireland client companies in any one year usually exceeds the number of jobs announced because existing IDA client companies often add to their workforce. The Forfás Annual Employment survey shows that a total of 12,722 new jobs were created in IDA client companies during 2012. In the first 6 months of 2013, 70 investment projects, with the potential to create in the region of 7,000 jobs have been announced by IDA Ireland client companies.
Among the companies who announced job creation plans in the first half of 2013 were Ebay, EMC, McAfee, Pfizer, Sanofi, Symantec, Zurich, Huawei, Yahoo, Facebook, Vistakon, Guidewire, Squarespace, Groupon, Qualcomm, Novartis, Nypro, AOL and FireEye.
