IDA firms create 7,000 jobs
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.
