Clean-up bill for pharmaceutical giant's Clare site reaches €95.6m

Between 50 and 100 people are employed by contractors engaged by Roche Ireland Ltd to carry out the works

After the firm failed to secure a buyer for the pharma site, it set about decommissioning it and demolishing its fine chemical manufacturing plant 'to a brownfield status'.

The clean-up bill for Swiss pharmaceutical giant, Roche’s former Co Clare manufacturing site now totals €95.6m in what the company describes as “one of the largest remediation projects of its type in Europe”.

New accounts show that Roche Ireland Ltd recorded losses of €42.93m in 2023 as its decommissioning and remediation spend concerning its decision to exit manufacturing here continued to mount and now totals €95.6m over four years.