Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)
4:00 pm
Mr. Kevin Thompson:
Senator Reilly also asked why we would seek to locate in urban areas. We are trying to attract new, additional players into the Irish insurance market, particularly in the context of Brexit and one finds that new entrants will generally coalesce around centres of excellence such as the IFSC and similar places. That is not to say, however, that the insurance sector is not supportive of decentralisation. We actively work with the IDA to try to decentralise. If new companies are considering entering the market, we actively promote regional centres to them as well. We try to do what we can in that regard.
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