Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland

11:40 am

Mr. Barry O'Leary:

No; we will not take staff from the USA, because it is our biggest market and there is more to be got out of it. We have taken staff from other areas in the organisation. We have slimmed down some of our regional presence in Ireland on the basis that it is much better to have people out in the market generating leads rather than waiting for site visits here. On a global scale, our competitors put far more into countries such as China and India than we do. They put enormous resources into those markets.