IDA firms create 7,000 jobs

IDA-affiliated companies created over 7,000 net new jobs during 2013 — the highest level of job creation seen for more than 10 years.

In gross terms, before job losses were taken into account, new job creation levels amongst the agency’s client firms numbered 13,367, with an 18% rise in first-time investors to Ireland also noted. Last year’s job losses numbered 6,296; slightly up from the 6,125 in 2012, with the full net job creation figure 7,071.

Speaking on the back of the publication of the agency’s end-of-year report, outgoing IDA chief Barry O’Leary said that 2013’s job performance was delivered against a particularly challenging European economic environment, but leaves the IDA “firmly on track” to exceed its own Horizon 2020 strategy targets.