Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Ireland-US Economic Relations: Discussion with American Chamber of Commerce Ireland

3:15 pm

Mr. Peter O'Neill:

To reply to Deputy Áine Collins’s second question, we have great strengths in particular clusters such as information technology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and finance. It is a question of deciding where we go from here. More recently we have seen considerable investment by Internet companies. Perhaps we need to do more to attract start-up and smaller entrepreneurial companies. The other clusters have already achieved good penetration rates, but there is a limit to the number of additional companies which can be attracted to Ireland.

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