Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Enterprise Ireland’s End of Year Results for 2024 confirm that total employment at companies supported by the agency increased to a record 234,454 last year, with 15,741 new jobs created. 64% of the new jobs created in these client companies were located outside the Dublin region with all nine regions recording jobs growth. The jobs growth translates into a net increase of 6,212 jobs created last year.

Employment increased across Enterprise Ireland’s three core economic sectors – Technology & Services (+2%), Industrial and Life Sciences (+3%) and Food and Sustainability (+3%).

Strong employment growth was reported in specific sub sectors such as:

• Climate, Sustainability and Agritech (+8%)
• Digital Technology (+2%),
• Construction (+4%)
• Fintech, Financial Services (+2%)
• Lifesciences (+7%)
• Prepared Consumer Food (+4%)

Leo Clancy (pictured above), CEO of Enterprise Ireland, commented: “I am delighted to announce that 2024 was another strong year with our client companies creating 15,741 new jobs and growing net employment by 3%. 2024 marks the final year of Enterprise Ireland’s three-year strategy ‘Leading in a Changing World’ and we can confirm that our client companies have overachieved on our key targets to create 45,000 new jobs by 2024 and increase exports to €30 billion. Over the three-year period Enterprise Ireland client companies created 50,931 new jobs and at the end of 2023 over €34 billion in exports was recorded. Two thirds of the jobs created in the three-year period were outside Dublin and we supported 479 start-up businesses, up over 20% on the prior three years. The results announced today give us a really strong platform on which to further grow and expand our enterprise base in a sustainable way over the next five years.”

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Peter Burke said: “It is hugely positive to see Enterprise Ireland supported companies recording job growth for the fourth year in a row.  2024 was a challenging year for some sectors of exporting Irish businesses with high interest rates and international instability impacting business performance, so to record significant employment growth is even more impressive.”