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Updated at 11.30am
200 NEW JOBS are being created at Dublin Airport. Swissport Ireland Limited, which manages ground handling at the facility, announced the creation of the positions this morning.
The jobs will be in customer service, ramp handling, flight operations and security, amongst other areas.
Ground handling business (essentially the servicing of aircraft while they’re on the tarmac) grew by 23% in 2015 and is expected to grow by a further 10% this year. Some jobs are already being advertised online on the Swissport website.
“We are delighted to see Swissport’s business go from strength to strength at Dublin Airport,” Dublin Airport Managing Director Vincent Harrison said.
The recruitment of a further 200 jobs, on top of the 350 recently announced by Dublin Airport further endorses the economic impact of the airport.
Other jobs
Earlier today, 200 further jobs were announced by healthcare company MSD. The jobs will come on stream at three of the firm’s Irish sites by the end of the year.
MSD in Carlow, the company’s only standalone vaccine facility outside the US, is creating 110 new roles in production, engineering and quality control.
Its base in Brinny, Co Cork – which specialises in the fermentation and sterile filling of biotech products – is seeking 50 new hires in manufacturing, quality, technology, engineering, and environmental and safety.
MSD’s branch in Ballydine, Co Tipperary – which is involved in the research and development, formulation and manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients – will recruit 40 new employees, including process and chemical engineers and organic chemists by the end of 2016.
Cancer and hepatitis C
Ger Carmody, associate vice president at MSD in Tipperary, said: “Our state-of-the-art facilities in Carlow, Cork and Tipperary are leading the way in the development of new medicines, including MSD’s new treatments for cancer and hepatitis C, which are being manufactured in Ireland for the world market.
Oour Irish sites are involved in the production of over 60% of MSD’s global top 20 products.
MSD already employs more than 2,000 people across five sites in Ireland – in Dublin, Carlow, Cork, Tipperary and Wicklow. Its Irish operations had a turnover of €3 billion in 2014.
The company has operated in Ireland for over 50 years. It produces medicines in areas such as diabetes, heart disease, oncology, infectious diseases and anaesthesia.
With reporting by Daragh Brophy.
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Ireland created 55,000 jobs in 2015. Germany created 300,000 new jobs. Adjusting for population, that means Ireland is now creating jobs at over three times the rate of Germany. A few more years of this and we’ll be back on our feet, provided we don’t throw it to the dogs by electing muppets and socialists.
How many of these were full-time positions compared to Germany? How many were created by FDI compared to Germany? How many jobs were lost in the same period compared to Germany?
What’s the relevance of FDI, Jason?
Companies come and go, some will fail and some people will lose jobs. It was always this way.
Modern airport workers put in the most unsocial hours of just about anyone in the national workforce, a baggege handler or aircraft cleaner works virtually a different shift every day with the first shift starting at 3am and the last shift finishing at 1Am and a rake of shifts in between. approx 8 different shifts pw, these kind of working hours are not conducive to good health physically or mentally and then theres the constant smell of aircraft fumes hanging over the airport apron, I realise someone’s got to do this work but as someone who’s been there done that I wouldn’t recommend it
Well done FG/labour ,more jobs created
Im sure a FG candidate will be taking credit for this in cork, carlow and tip.
Well done enda
It’ll be kelly in tipp. Already taking credit for things that don’t exist
I suppose yes they are responsible for the jobs. Company run by someone with fg links or supports fg gets lucrative gov contract, hires more people. The problem is the company might not be well run and the gov is temporary so then we get job losses when the contract ends and the next gov wanna give lucrative contract to someone else.
What the LLA spew it’s politically motivated negativity all over this.
More evidence that the recovery is spreading. Well done to all involved.
I wonder what factory or business enda will be visiting today. No doubt it’ll be one owned by an ex fg councillor that won a lucrative gov contract recently.
And I’m sure we’ll get an interview with the employee who’ll be saying this is great news while biting his tongue, when he really means “these b@$t@#ds”, while thinking of all the other times this gov screwed him over.
Do you have to try hard to be such an idiot
You wanna start looking for idiots, take a look in the mirror.
Adrian, you say “You wanna start looking for idiots, take a look in the mirror” – just wondering are you speaking form experience?
Had a look on the airport vacancies..fixed term @20hrs pw@ €10 ph..good luck on travelling /renting /living in Dublin on that…
Then don’t apply for the job. It’s a free country and a free market. Get yourself a skill or qualification so you can be on €20 ph.
The €10 also includes shift allowance
And the bus they have to take costs 6e, no public transport option at the times they ask their staff to come in.
Flying almost weekly I’m not a fan of swissport, they’re an outsource agent for airline customer service and baggage…
They don’t seem to give a toss given they don’t actually work for the airline you bought the ticket from. You can be the airlines best customer and end up butting heads with a rude, poorly trained ‘computer says no’ type person who will happily keep you waiting in a 3hr queue and couldn’t care less if you get where you’re going or where in the world your bag is.
Don’t bother complaining to the airline either, they just reply with that’s not our problem, it’s not our staff that’s an outsource provider we use.
You got it in one drew, any experience I had with Swiss port was bad. Pay peanuts get monkeys.
It’s entirely the fault of the company! They treat their staff badly and charge them 125e to get out of the contract!! The staff aren’t paid any sort of shift or transport allowance either.
OMG who cares! 200 jobs are 200 jobs!
Great for the economy!
Not if those 200 jobs are part-time, seasonal, short -term. How many of those 200 are full time, how many will create long term employment?
Another great result by FG – vote FG no.1
Jesus FG supporters equate to low IQ gombeens…
These jobs are due to the airlines needing more contract staff….I dont see how FG created these….unless its the higher levels of emigration and/or commuting to the UK for actual jobs that they fostered?
FG Labour sell national airline to British Airways who immediately pull out of ground handling at Dublin,
Swissport moves in and advertises formerly well paid jobs at minimum wage zero hour contract
Government claims credit for huge growth in jobs at Dublin Airport
Alice in Wonderland economics
Nothing in this article suggests Swissport are taking jobs from Aer Lingus (who were actually a private company until bought by IAG) Have there been any mention in the media/online about Aer Lingus “immediately pulling out of ground handling at Dublin”? pretty sure I saw their staff still there when I flew out 2 weeks ago.
That picture of an Aer Lingus plane is just a stock “Dublin Airport” photo.
Are things better every restaurant I went into in the past two weeks have put up there prices greed is on the way back I asked one of the managers his reply was “we are out of the recession” yeah right.
If you no longer find it good value… Why continue to eat there? Go elsewhere. You sound reasonably well off given that you have eaten out enough to notice a trend in the last 2 weeks.
My restaurant meal last night was ruined by a group of 8 people at the adjacent table not just cheap and moany but too stupid to understand their bill.
Probably zero hours contract
I wonder if they’re preparing to take over ground handling for Aer Lingus. It will happen eventually.
Not going to happy the scale of Aer Lingus delivers cost major cost savings doing it yourself.
What may happen once contracts are up for British Airways, Iberia and Vueling, they could be taking over by Aer Lingus as part of IAG if Aer Lingus can do it cheaper.
Probably they handle a lot for BA and other IAG carriers and they now own Aer Lingus. Plus the new management come from Vieuling and have already announced that ‘cost cutting’ will very much be the tone of management following acquisition.
@dave
All to be subsidised by the taxpayer via FIS..would be better to see half the amount of jobs on full hours..but its the FG way…
Aer Lingus is a sponsor of Jobbridge, so we know what extra jobs they are offering….
Where are Aer Lingus mentioned i this article….the jobs are being added by Swissport
Should say 200 part time temporary jobs created on €10 ph, but at least it’s a good number & hopefully some will go into full time all going well
There must be an election looming . . . . . . . . .
Swissport don’t handle any airlines anymore at Gatwick. That says it all.
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