DUBLIN: Chief executive Martin Shanahan said the current pipeline of job projects looks “looks reasonably strong for the foreseeable future” as he unveiled the plan, under which IDA Ireland aims to provide 80,000 new jobs by 2019.
Recognising that job losses are “inevitable” in the world of foreign direct investment, the plan aims to minimise losses and deliver a minimum of 35,000 new jobs in the five years. Such growth would represent a 40 per cent increase on the target in the 2010-2014 strategic plan. “This will increase employment in the client portfolio from 174,448 in 2014 to 209,000 by 2019,” the agency said.
IDA Ireland’s objective is to increase the level of investment in each of the Republic’s regions by between 30 per cent and 40 per cent in the next five years.
