Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

ICT Skills Report: Discussion

1:45 pm

Mr. Joe Cunningham:

We sensed that we would get something by the beginning of the next quarter. We have been really positive recently about the Department and how responsive it has been to green card applications. The problem we have is that it needs to be really predictable. We make offers to people around the world and have a very short window in which to catch them before they take jobs somewhere else. We are talking about the very top talent - the people who will mentor the people coming out of colleges in three years. To get those guys, we need a really predictable process and that is what this scheme we have seen presented to us by the Department in draft form will move us towards.