Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Irish Membership of CERN: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Ed Hendrick:

Of course it has, yes. In 2011, we employed ten people. We now employ approximately 60 people. We have grown a lot in six or seven years. James Purvis, who is head of recruitment at CERN, has taken calls from potential clients in Australia at awful hours of the morning. CERN has been willing to do this. It has been an incredible advocate for what we do, and that makes a great difference. It is hard to buy that. One can spend millions of euro on advertising and one will still not get that effect that a reference customer like CERN would be able to provide for a company.

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