The IDA is defending PayPal after it emerged that half of the 1,000 new jobs created at the firm will be filled by foreign workers.

Enterprise ministers on both sides of the border should co-operate to create jobs in areas of high need across Ireland, Sinn Féin has said.

Multi-national companies created almost 11,000 jobs last year – more than double the figure in 2009.

A HOLDING company for Boston Scientific’s Irish and a number of international subsidiaries last yearrecorded pre-tax losses of over $1 billion (€752 million).

More than 100 new jobs will be created by a US technology firm making an €8m investment in the west.

THE Government is forwarding any expressions of interest in taking over SR Technics’ Dublin operation directly to the aircraft maintenance firm — despite any successful bidder being a likely competitor to the Swiss company.

The Government was tonight accused of sitting idly by as two flagship employers in the aviation industry announced job cuts.

THE IDA (Industrial Development Agency) has put a team in place in the US to lobby Barack Obama on tax issues should he become president.

Up to 200 jobs are to be created in West Cork through the expansion of a medical equipment company.

A high-tech medical company is set to announce the creation of more than 100 jobs for Cork next week.

DESERTED buildings and acres of undeveloped land earmarked for business are wasting taxpayers’ money, it was warned last night.

Fine Gael is claiming that almost half of all property owned by the Industrial Development Agency is lying idle.

FBD HOLDINGS has announced the appointment of outgoing IDA chief, Seán Dorgan, as a non-executive director with effect from January 1.

IBM has announced a multi-million euro investment in a new business centre in Cork.

THE Industrial Development Agency (IDA Ireland) is one part of a trio of Government agencies responsible to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in the Irish Government.

EMPLOYERS from across the mid-west will gather for a bigr business meeting in Shannon tomorrow amid concerns that the loss of Aer Lingus’s Heathrow link will cripple the regional economy.

ENTERPRISE Minister Micheal Martin last night rejected claims he did nothing to prevent imminent job losses at the Motorola plant in Cork.

THE Industrial Development Agency (IDA) has shrugged off claims that it’s doing nothing to bring jobs to a part of Waterford that has been dealt a series of employment blows.

PATIENT safety watchdogs have called for urgent research into the extent of the country’s addiction to buying medicine off the internet.

UNITED States drugs giant, Amgen, is a step closer to setting up a €1.3 billion plant in Cork - which will create up to 1,500 jobs, the Irish Examiner has learned.

AN Irish tourism office opened in China yesterday in a bid to attract 50,000 Chinese visitors to Ireland by 2009.

THE Mayor of Limerick last night issued a ‘shape up or ship out’ warning to the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) after Limerick and the mid-west drew a blank with new industrial jobs during 2005.

UP-BEAT predictions on the jobs front for the year ahead are welcome proof that Ireland’s economy is burgeoning.

THE jobs boom is set to continue this year, the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) predicted last night, as it announced that the country had seen the biggest increase in employment in five years.

The Irish economy looks set to thrive this year with many new business ventures expected to kick-off, a Government agency said today.

CORK could be in line for a massive jobs boost following talks between Amgen, the giant American biopharmaceutical company, and the Industrial Development Agency (IDA).

FULL-TIME jobs in IDA-backed companies rose marginally in 2004 to 10,825.

Internet sales site eBay and a subsidiary are to create up to 800 jobs in Ireland through new developments in Dublin.

A US multinational has announced plans to expand its facilities in Co Galway in a move that could create up to 220 new jobs.

MORE than 1,200 jobs will be created in the coming months to boost employment in the border, midlands and eastern regions.

Italian pharmaceutical group Recordati is to create 60 jobs through a €28m investment in Ireland.

The Labour Party has criticised the Government's decision to reduce funding for the IDA as part of a recent round of cutbacks.

The Braun electrical firm has announced plans to lay off 225 workers at its factory in Carlow town.

An Irish business chief today underscored the importance for industrial investment of reversing last year’s shock referendum rejection in Ireland of the Nice Treaty for the expansion of the European Union.

The head of the Industrial Development Agency tonight insisted that Ireland would ‘‘break even’’ on the jobs front this year, despite a continuing rash of redundancy announcements.

The budget surplus for 2001 will be £500m less than anticipated at the end of last year, Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy reported tonight.

Waterford is to get an 800-job boost through development announcements today by two American-linked companies.

Investment into this country has seen a significant swing into regions outside Dublin, according to the Industrial Development Agency.