Multinational firms ‘frustrated’ over failure to deliver basic infrastructure

Companies that come to Ireland are often frustrated by a failure of authorities to plan and deliver on the most basic of services from roads to water.

Speaking at the Ibec breakfast briefing on ‘Making Cork Work’, Gerry Collins, general manager of pharmaceutical company Janssen, said that in other parts of the world, when a company invests, the road network will have been built to accommodate the volume of workers that are heading out to the factory.

“When we look at where we are going to locate facilities around the world, we don’t have to worry about the road network in and out of the plant, before we go and build the plant there… They have already thought about the volume of people that will be going in and out of those facilities, so you don’t have to take on challenges like getting people in and out of the city.