Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion
11:00 am
Mr. Terry Clune:
The Deputy is right. My day job is running a financial services company. We employ 1,200 people around the world. If one of our salespeople achieved 10% of target, we would not renew his or her contract.
In terms of the Australian company, the vast majority of its jobs are not counted in Ireland. The IDA has chosen not to do so for a plethora of reasons and we have no opportunity to argue against the organisation. It has chosen not to include all of the jobs.
The jobs that our colleague, Mr. Moran, has brought to Ireland, which are as he explained in Gweedore, County Donegal, are not included. Unfortunately, we are very limited in terms of what we can say in response to the Deputy's question.
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