Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
IDA Ireland: Chairperson Designate
Mr. Feargal O'Rourke:
It is a lot. The first instruction everybody has is to win the project for Ireland. That is the first and overriding issue. Each person in the team has targets for the region. Dexcom in Athenry was a fantastic announcement recently. It has also recently taken up the naming rights for the sports ground in Galway for the Connacht rugby team. That is a fantastic example of winning it for Ireland in the first instance and then the mid-west winning it. Once the account person has won the project for Ireland with his or her team, and the company has agreed in principle to Ireland, their job is then to ask if we have our balanced portfolio this year. We may have got a couple of investments in Dublin but how are we doing in the eight regions? There is an element of making sure we look at this pretty quickly after we have won the mandate and then look at which region is next up for an investment.
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