Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 March 2023
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion
9:30 am
Mr. Leo Clancy:
I will give the Deputy an overview, first of the KPIs we use in respect of our operations. I will not go through every one because I have a couple of pages of them here, but as for some of the key ones that we talk about every year, employment is at the core of what we do. The purpose of this agency is to provide economic opportunity to people in Ireland, and I firmly believe that, as does my team. One of the KPIs we have set for ourselves in this strategy period is that we will create 45,000 new jobs over the period. We have set a target that exports will reach €30 billion by the end of 2024 and we have set a target for research and development conducted by our clients of €1.4 billion by the end of 2024. I am pleased to say we are well on track on all three of those at the end of the first year of our strategy. We are now in year two of a three-year strategy and we are well on track on those three KPIs because they are the ones that bring economic benefit and future performance for Irish companies. We are also very focused on productivity and sustainability. I am happy to go further but I am conscious of the Deputy's time.