The government of Ireland has published a strategy aimed at generating thousands of jobs in manufacturing through a range of initiatives including the introduction of new technologies and investment in research.
We will deliver 20,000 manufacturing jobs by 2016, minister for jobs Richard Bruton said at a press conference also attended by the education and skills minister Ruairi Quinn. Bruton had asked Forfás, the state policy agency for research and enterprise and advisory body the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs, to devise a plan to meet the government’s target and its strategy was published at the press conference on 22 April.
The plan includes a number of actions that the ministers say will create new companies and boost activity in existing manufacturing firms. They include a fund disbursed by Enterprise Ireland to support start-up companies. No figure was provided for the value of this fund.
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