Staff boost for agencies tasked with creating 105,000 jobs

THE Enterprise Minister announced extra staff for both the IDA and Enterprise Ireland yesterday to help them achieve their target of creating 105,000 jobs over the next five years.

The IDA issued a statement last night and said it is satisfied that the extra staff, together with an “internal business process transformation initiative” within the IDA, positions it to implement its Horizon 2020 Strategy and achieve the targets set out over the five-year period, 2010-2014.

Minister Batt O’Keeffe confirmed the extra staff after it emerged that IDA chairman Liam O’Mahony wrote a letter to the minister in June warning that chronic under-staffing was threatening his agency’s ability to deliver on its job creation targets.