Small, fast-growing firms to create jobs, says Bruton

The Government has denied that Dublin grabs the biggest share of the huge amounts of foreign direct investment flowing into Ireland at the expense of the rest of the country.

Jobs Minister Richard Bruton told reporters that Ireland’s regions play to their various individual “strengths”, but that small fast-growing companies tend to be attracted to the centressuch as Dublin that offer them key advantages.

He was responding to a reporters’ question following an announcement that five of six companies that the Government yesterday said were setting up bases in Ireland for the first time would be located in the capital.