Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he expects to appoint a new CEO of the IDA. [14565/23]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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IDA Ireland has today announced the appointment of Michael Lohan to the role of CEO. Mr Lohan is currently IDA Global Head of Life Sciences and Talent Transformation and Innovation and is a member of the organisation’s Executive Leadership team. He will take up his new role on 17th April 2023.

In that regard, I look forward to working with the new CEO, and the IDA Board, as we work together to sustain Ireland’s success in winning and retaining investment and jobs in an increasingly competitive international environment. Government is clear that we must ensure that Ireland continues to attract and retain overseas investments and the jobs they provide and that our value proposition continues to be amongst the best in the world.

IDA Ireland is recognised as a leading investment promotion agency, responsible for supporting over 300,000 jobs in multinational companies across the country. The performance of our FDI sector has reached record levels, notwithstanding the current resetting by the tech sector, and I am looking forward to working with the new CEO and the IDA in maintaining Ireland’s strong performance in attracting and retaining high-quality FDI.

With the FDI sector a central element of our economic model, IDA will continue to play a leading role in implementing Government’s policy on enterprise as set out in the recently published Government White Paper on Enterprise. In this regard, Government is committed to ensuring that Ireland remains at the frontier of new technologies and sectoral development and realising the potential of our regions. To these ends, IDA is working closely with the FDI sector on digital transformation, achieving our net-zero carbon commitments and developing our offshore wind industry.

Finally, my Department and IDA will work hand-in-glove to maintain Ireland’s strong performance in attracting high-quality mobile FDI to Ireland in such key sectors as ICT, Lifesciences, Financial Services and frontier manufacturing, as well as further embedding the many FDI companies already located here, built up over the seven decades of IDA’s existence.

Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail current vacant positions across Enterprise Ireland and the IDA, that is, the position, location and period each has been vacant; and the measures in place to fill these positions. [14566/23]