IDA eying ‘strong’ pipeline of job creation and multinational investment

The pipeline of additional multinational investment and job creation, for the first three months of this year, is relatively strong, said IDA chief Martin Shanahan yesterday.

Speaking on the back of a strong set of job figures for 2015, Mr Shanahan said the agency is on track following the first year of its latest five-year strategy, which aims to deliver 80,000 jobs and 900 investments by 2020.

“There has been a very strong pipeline of new investments over the past 18 months and we can see [from the 2015] figures that multinationals are adding headcount at a high rate, which suggests a strong uplift in activity.