Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion

Ms Mary Buckley:

I will start and then perhaps Mr. Travers can cover anything I do not mention in a minute. We have a long relationship with our client companies regardless of the sector they are in. In the case of many companies looking at a location in which to invest, we are competing with other locations. It is not the case that a company just says it wants to go to Ireland. A great amount of analysis and investigation is done in respect of each location to ensure the company is going to the right location, the one that meets its business needs. Through our overseas offices, IDA Ireland targets companies. We engage with them and see what they are planning to do, usually through their strategies. We then work to win their investment for Ireland when they are looking to invest internationally. We have a strong value proposition and we work through that with them. The relationship is all about competing to win. This is where we talk about having the right education system, infrastructure and so on in place. Those are the types of-----