ICT sector 'remains strong'

IRELAND remains an attractive location for information and communication technology (ICT) investment but more work needs to be done to improve the take-up of science in schools, according to industry leaders.

ICT Ireland, the industry representative body run by employers group IBEC, said Ireland's ICT sector remained strong and that the current transitional period should be viewed as “a blip on the radar”.

ICT Ireland said the top 10 ICT companies in Ireland, which include Intel, Microsoft and IBM, were employing more people now than they had been at the start of 2000. Employment in the sector now catered for over 90,000 people, almost five times as many as in 1990.