Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland

11:10 am

Mr. Barry O'Leary:

The IDA has a strong influencing agenda with the Government, although we do not publish it. We must work our way through various Departments. To exploit the biopharmaceutical industry, for example, we received €60 million to build the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training, NIBRT. We also worked with a number of councils to have roads moved or changed. Our influencing agenda is a key part of our work and several of our people are working on it almost continuously.