Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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24. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the number of jobs supported by the IDA and Enterprise Ireland in Dublin during 2021. [25245/22]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Dublin region is home to 905 IDA client companies employing 123,708 staff. The region has repeatedly attracted significant investment across all sectors and activities with prominent investment in ICT, International Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals and Global Business Services. FDI in Dublin also has a high concentration of R&D investment particularly in the Tech sector. The number of jobs supported by Enterprise Ireland in Dublin in 2021 was 66,704.

As the Deputy will be aware, last month I published a new Enterprise Plan for Dublin. As I said at the time, Dublin has its own unique challenges. This plan has been put together with buy-in from the local community to look at what businesses in the region need and want in the years ahead.

Dublin is a region: a city region of European and international scale. Dublin competes internationally and often, what’s lost to Dublin is lost to Ireland.

One of my priorities as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, is to have 2.5 million people employed in the country by 2024. We’re investing up to €180 million in these nine regional enterprise plans to help reach that target.