Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 March 2017
Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised)
4:30 pm
Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Language is hugely important to them. We have, for example, targeted growth in China, India, Asia, the Gulf and Latin America. They would employ people from those countries to ensure the communication is good between companies that might be thinking of coming to Ireland or, even more important, our indigenous companies that might be thinking of going abroad.
I talked about sectoral expertise. There would be experts in financial, fin-tech, biopharma and medical pharma. The representatives of a company thinking of locating in Ireland - I am only talking about the FDI side - will get to meet those sectoral experts who will also have marketing expertise and who probably also will have the native language for that company if it is not English. They will be meeting the expert in that area.
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