Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland

11:30 am

Mr. Barry O'Leary:

I do not know about applying that to areas but we must consider the overall matter. There is an enormous number of emerging young companies and we were not in that market a few years ago so we had to find a team of people for that purpose. We find when we want to do more we may not have more people to do it, just as it is with anybody else. Our numbers were frozen for a couple of years after being reduced; that was positive in its own right but there is more potential in the US market across a wide variety of opportunities.