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IRISH AND ASIAN companies have signed contracts worth €5 million and 20 jobs in Ireland as part of a trade mission to China and South Korea.
In addition to that funding, investments of €36million in business opportunities in Asia were agreed by Irish companies during the week-long trade and investment mission.
The announcement comes at the end of a five-day programme to Beijing, Shanghai and Seoul, in which 41 Irish companies participated, targeting export and investment opportunities for Irish companies.
The trade and investment mission also included 13 bilateral meetings with IDA Ireland target companies.
Speaking from Seoul, Jobs Minister Richard Bruton said that the jobs represented a dividend on the Action Plan for Jobs.
“At the heart of our Action Plan for Jobs is building a new, sustainable economy based on exports and innovation. As part of this strategy we have put in place a number of measures including doubling the number of trade missions and putting extra IDA and Enterprise Ireland staff in foreign markets.
“I have said before that Irish entrepreneurs and business-people are the real heroes of the recovery we are starting to see across our economy. The 41 companies who participated in this mission, some of whom have finalised deals, others of whom have made major progress, have done great work over this week.”
The deals done on the trip include IT, food and HR businesses.
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It’s great news at last, it’s the small businesses that suffer the most and it’s about time the small companies get the help they need, it’s they afterall that form the communities and hold together society, not some multinational that will bugger off when it suits them or when the “deal” is up.
Great news more small businesses getting loans grown their companies then taking on 2 job bridge slaves to work for them.
Not a fan of jobsbridge but at least there should be a chance of a business for them to go to, which I’m sure in anyones eyes is a good thing.
I’d rather sh_te in my hands and clap for eight hours than be a slave for a profitable company big or small.
So enlighten us as to what benefit you personally bring to society?
The benifits class is alive and well in Eire
My god what an irrelevant person
Ged Nash will not be elected again I believe, that is what I seem to hear from the Drogheda direction…
He won’t be
Ned Gash is junketing off to Sweden for St Patrick’s Day.
I sincerely hope that there are some good and caring Irish people in America, Canada, New Zealand, Australia etc. who are well aware of what’s going on at home and will come out and demonstrate wherever these wasters show up! Tell your family members and friends abroad, who have been forced to emigrate by the actions of this so called government, to let these miserable ministers know how they feel at the St Patrick’s Day parades around the world.
Keep Calm & Crowd Fund….
I’ve seen it all now
I wish you would shit in your hands. I’ve had two jobsbridge candidates who are still employed. Attitudes like your are the reason hard working folk resent social welfare.
Assif. Get a job.
Assif, do you need a hug?
Assif you tool.
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