Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Action Plan for Job Creation and Innovation: Startup Ireland
3:20 pm
Mr. Eoin Costello:
The Activating Dublin report identified a number of clusters in the immediate city centre. The area referred to as Silicon Docks, where Facebook and Google have their offices, would be one hub, and the other hub they clearly identify is up towards St. James's Gate, with the National Digital Research Centre, the Digital Hub and so on. It has been a great success in doing what it does. With regard to how things will go forward in terms of the expected changes in the next couple of years, the Dublin Institute of Technology will be consolidating a huge campus of 22,000 students at Grangegorman over the next five to ten years. There will be other changes in terms of DIT becoming the technological university for Dublin, having met the various criteria set for that. There will many changes in the city landscape over the next five years. It is beyond me to comment on where an individual cluster will fit within it.
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