Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

When it comes to jobs, Brexit is mainly about risk mitigation and protecting as many jobs as we can. As we all know, sectors such as agrifood, tourism, retail and manufacturing are under very serious threat. One area of potential opportunity is financial services, and maximising not just the number of jobs that come over but their sustainability and the total benefit to the sector requires a very strategic approach. This means we need to attract the full ecosystem of financial services. How many infrastructure companies in financial services have been engaged with by the State, how many have agreed to set up operations in Ireland and how many jobs will be associated with this?

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