Foreign investors to create 20k jobs

Foreign investors and multinationals estimate they will invest €5.7bn in their Irish operations over the next three years, creating 20,000 jobs, according to a survey.

The report, ‘Investing in Ireland — A survey of foreign direct investors’, was commissioned by the law firm Matheson Ormsby Prentice and carried out by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

It found that half of these jobs would be in the financial services sector and a quarter in technology.