Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Ireland-US Economic Relations: Discussion with American Chamber of Commerce Ireland
3:15 pm
Mr. Peter O'Neill:
To reply to Deputy Áine Collins’s second question, we have great strengths in particular clusters such as information technology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and finance. It is a question of deciding where we go from here. More recently we have seen considerable investment by Internet companies. Perhaps we need to do more to attract start-up and smaller entrepreneurial companies. The other clusters have already achieved good penetration rates, but there is a limit to the number of additional companies which can be attracted to Ireland.