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 absolutely is. I was reading myself into the role at the start of the year. At one level, IDA's role is not to solve the problems of the world in terms of housing, water or electricity. I do not mean that to sound trite but our role is really about getting those messages from inward investment and transmitting and amplifying them to the right places within the system to say we have a water problem in whatever is the area or a grid connection problem somewhere else. The CEO meets regularly with the other agencies, and as chairman at the start of that programme, I will be meeting my counterparts in the key agencies to make sure we are aligned from a strategic perspective. The CEO will meet with his peers. I will meet with my peers to make sure of, not quite a whole of government approach, but a whole of agency approach. We will obviously be feeding back to our parent Departments too. It is trying to get the spirit of the previous approach - if you look at jobs more than a decade ago - of always being on the same page singing the same song and making sure we are delivering.

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