Company to set up Irish HQ, but recruits from abroad

Ninety new jobs are being created in Dublin as part of a two-year recruitment programme at Version 1.

The company is to open its new corporate headquarters on Dublin's Millennium Walkway.

However, the IT company is looking abroad to fill vacancies in its expansion plan, because it says it cannot get enough graduates here.

Managing Director Justin Keatinge said the Government should make it easier to recruit from abroad.

"We're trying to bring people from all over the world...to fill these vacancies, and it's very difficult," he said.

"We would encourage the Government to come up with a fast-track, hi-tech work permit system where within a week you could get a work permit for a person coming from Argentina, for example."