Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion

11:00 am

Ms Joanna Murphy:

We cannot surmise how IDA Ireland might feel or otherwise. We have been enormously proud. We talked about 82 new-name greenfield investments over the short life of the programme. It is not quite five years yet. We are so proud. IDA Ireland is one of the most successful inward investment agencies in the world. We are terribly proud to have been able to contribute 22% of its own new-name greenfield projects over the same timeframe. I hope that in some way answers the question. It has been very successful. We would not want to do it if it was not. It is an evolving thing. For 14 months consecutively we have had job announcements every single month coming through the initiative, including smaller companies. It works.