Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised)

4:30 pm

Photo of Mary Mitchell O'ConnorMary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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Most contracts will be for three years. I have had the great pleasure of meeting staff from Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland in Ireland and abroad. The Deputy would be so proud of them. They are experts in their field. They have sectoral knowledge and expertise. If we were recruiting for a role involving biopharma, the person employed would be an expert in biopharma. There are also marketing executives to ensure that they have those skills when they are meeting people. We have sales and marketing expertise. The sectoral expertise of the staff is very obvious when one meets them.