‘Recovery set to continue next year’

IRELAND’S economic recovery will continue to gather momentum next year while its attractiveness as a business environment has not changed.

That is according to PricewaterhouseCoopers chairman Dennis Nally, who added that the country is slowly headed in the right direction towards creating jobs, strengthening consumer consumption and increasing investment.

Addressing yesterday’s IBEC CEO Conference at Dublin’s Convention Centre, Mr Nally said: “With its reliance on exports and openness to the global economy, Ireland is still vulnerable. As a result, there will be more difficult decisions ahead. But, if they are addressed with the same determined willingness to change — with the same great Irish spirit of resiliency — the Irish recovery will continue to gather momentum in 2012.”