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Amazon to create 100 jobs in Dublin

The online retailer is seeking people to work as support engineers and software developers as well as in other roles. The announcement has been welcomed by the IDA and Minister Richard Bruton.

ONLINE RETAILER AMAZON has announced that it is to create 100 jobs in Dublin.

Amazon has said that it is to create over 100 new technology jobs at its Development Centre in Kilmainham, Dublin.

The centre is home to a team of engineers and developers which supports the design and deployment of Amazon websites.

The announcement has been welcomed by Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, who said:

Central to the Government’s plans for jobs and growth is ensuring that we deepen and develop the impact of multinational companies here, and we are determined to convince more companies to locate more high-end activities here and create more jobs. Over recent months we have seen a string of top companies decide to locate investments and jobs here.

The centre in Kilmainham also hosts an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Developer Support team which provides technical assistance for customers using applications like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon CloudFront.

The Irish Government is supporting the expansion through IDA Ireland and the new jobs will include support engineers, systems engineers, network engineers, software developers and technical managers.

Minister Bruton said the jobs are great news for Dublin and for Ireland, and show “what is possible in a stable Irish economy”.

Barry O’Leary, CEO of IDA Ireland, said that Amazon set up its Development Centre in Ireland in 2005 and now has hundreds of workers employed there.

The decision by Amazon to expand the technology centre illustrates Ireland’s ability to attract high-calibre Foreign Direct Investment and represents a key endorsement by one of the world’s leading companies. Today’s announcement further adds to Ireland’s reputation as the online capital of Europe and a key strategic hub for next generation data services.

More information on these positions can be found by logging  onto www.amazon.co.uk/careers

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    Mute Irelands Owen
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    May 28th 2012, 10:30 AM

    Vote Yes to keep this job growth going.

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    Mute toorkeel
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    May 28th 2012, 10:33 AM

    More good news…keep it going

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    Mute Kevin O'Sullivan
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    May 28th 2012, 11:23 AM

    150 jobs announced in one day and its not even midday! Anybody notice how quiet it is all of a sudden? Nothing the No side can say! Clearly Government policy is working and being in Europe isn’t stopping us progress. Vote Yes this Thursday. Is it any wonder why government satisfaction is increasing!

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    Mute You Reacted Ha Ha!
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    May 28th 2012, 12:34 PM

    Yeah but according to the fascist Blueshirts they’ll be gone on the 1st of June if we vote No,just shows the favourite cliche of ‘inward investment’ isn’t reliant on a Yes vote at all,these companies could care less about the referendum,othdp

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    May 28th 2012, 12:35 PM

    otherwise they would have waited before announcing this,right Kevin?

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    Mute Réada Cronin
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    May 28th 2012, 11:49 AM

    Great to see so many jobs being announced this week. Just goes to show us that these companies have great faith in Ireland regardless of how we vote.

    Companies like Amazon don’t expect everything to be plain sailing. They move and adapt to outside forces. Force our inept government to do the same. Force their hand to look for a write off on our Bank Debt. #NotOurDebt!

    Time for courage. Vote NO this Thursday. I have great faith in Ireland too.

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    Mute Kevin O'Sullivan
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    May 28th 2012, 12:00 PM

    We haven’t voted yet. But we did vote Yes to Lisbon. Thus, this could be on the back of that treaty being positively accepted by the people and companies assuming Ireland will do the same?

    Our bank debt has nothing to do with the treaty. Its time for courage indeed, its time to silence the nay sayers, deal with the facts and take the treaty at face value ignoring the horseshite from everyone else. On that, the Irish people will vote Yes.

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    Mute Danny Supafly Kehoe
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    May 28th 2012, 11:45 AM

    i highly doubt that the fiscal treaty referendum even came into the consideration when locating these jobs in ireland.i fail to see how government policy is working when there are still nearly half a million people unemployed.we will need high growth rates to get out of this mess and stable low growth will not acheive this.i will b voting no!

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    Mute Barry
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    May 28th 2012, 1:17 PM

    So you think large multinational companys don’t factor in how stable a country is when it comes to deciding to invest in a country? Your having a laugh.

    Strikes and unrest (which is what coul;d happen if getting money for Ireland gets harder) don’t make this country attractive for investment.

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    Mute seamus mcdermott
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    May 28th 2012, 2:47 PM

    Barry, France seems to be doing OK and it has lots of strikes and unrest compared to Ireland.

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    Mute Gavin McGuinness
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    May 28th 2012, 1:12 PM

    Proof that whatever way we vote this Thursday there will still be foreign investment. According to the ‘Yes’ side, as soon as we vote ‘No’, these jobs will be gone. I don’t know about you but I don’t believe a word of it.

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    Mute LoyalIrish Citizen
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    May 28th 2012, 11:13 AM

    Did we not see this story a couple of months ago in The Journal?

    Looks like propaganda to me just in time for the vote.

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    Mute seamus mcdermott
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    May 28th 2012, 2:49 PM

    Anything good that happens, Yes will take credit, any plane crashes, they’ll blame it on the “No” side.
    I thought the “SF Voted Yes On The Bank Bailout” song-and-dance was a bit over the top, with respect to intellectual honesty. That kind of shite pushes me deeper into the anti-treaty camp.

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    Mute Sarah
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    May 28th 2012, 2:36 PM

    So sick of the propaganda at this stage and the blueshirts jumping on the bandwagon and then for Mr O Sullivan to say this is all down to the Lisbon Treaty my god this gets better and better. Companies will locate here for our tax rate the Double Irish Tax is what they call it. And sorry people but Ireland is a stable country we dont have a civil war going on we have an educated workforce we have access to European markets and we are an english speaking country. I could go on and on these are the reasons people invest here not because FG are in power…

    And when we vote NO NO NO they will invest again and again regardless. But a major point needs to be pointed out about this bull**** treaty is how can we ever elect a government again when they cant be held accountable for economic policy. So when we dump them one party cant come up and say we will spend this on education and health when they dont even hold the purse my god this is a farce.

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    Mute John 'Trips' Gallen
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    May 28th 2012, 11:47 AM

    But will they pay taxes here? Because they pay nothing in taxes in the UK.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/04/amazon-british-operation-corporation-tax

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    Mute Donncha Ó Coileáin
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    May 28th 2012, 11:58 AM

    I don’t know about that. But those 100 workers will pay tax here. They will spend their money here and thus pay VAT, and by spending money they will create a few more jobs and so on. Ffs, stop seeing the negative in everything!!

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    Mute Gavin McGuinness
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    May 28th 2012, 2:40 PM

    Tax is an important issue. Companies like Google use a method known as “The Double Irish” whereby they funnel 80% of their operating profits through Google Ireland and then on to Google Ireland Holdings in Bermuda. A minimal amount of money is left in this country to be taxed. That being said, any job announcements are very welcome.

    source : http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-shows-how-60-billion-u-s-revenue-lost-to-tax-loopholes.html

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    Mute Thomas M Bourke
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    May 29th 2012, 10:35 AM

    I think people forget the whole purpose of the corp tax reductions in the first place (as well as the access to third level education) was brought in to get multi nationals here to employ people… ‘educated’, ‘european’… ‘good golf courses’… okay maybe not so much the golf

    As the governments knew damm well the multinationals would out fox them on their tax, they went after those who cannot shuffle money around… you got it, the PAYE worker…

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