@Joan Murray: should they hire locals regardless of ability? Is that what happens in other developed countries? If a local wants to apply there, the onus is on the local to gain the skills necessary. Once you’re in, a company (any decent company) will help you further your career through education and training, but you have to be able to get the job first – that involves taking personal responsibility.

@windbag: he is right though. Jobs for local people is great but people moving into the city have to be housed somewhere. That said if they are tech jobs as per the article then language skills will probably not be a requirement.

@Joan Murray: it’s a matter of personal responsibility. There are plenty of jobs, the possibility of learning the skills is open to anyone with the intelligence, but some people prefer not to bother.

@Joan Murray: All paying lots of tax for your de pal, if these companies go you will find yourself on a boat to the UK because there will be no work and no money to pay your dole, you will become the very thing you seem to hate….a migrant.

@Joan Murray: why should companies be training people? The government is responsible for educating the population. They take corporation tax from companies to fund that.

@Ger: I live in Dublin and wouldn’t work there due to the commute. It is the other side of the city so might as well be in Donegal as I won’t spend that time commuting.
Language skills are often needed in tech companies and as it is software development for Europe language skills will be required

@Kieran: we need to employ local people there is massive unemployment and poverty in large parts of Dublin city centre and county this why people want change now they want jobs NOW…

@Craic_a_tower: seriously???

@Joan Murray: who wee’d on your wheetabix this AM ??

@Joan Murray: I agree with the sentiment of your comment but I disagree that we should put the onus onto the companies to train our young people – we pay high taxes in Ireland and fund a education system – the onus is on our country to train and educated our young people – there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that there are many things in our education system that need to be reformed and brought into the 21st century for sure – but I think it is misguided to point the finger at the corporations -we should ask some hard questions about accountability of the educators and the education system on the numbers and quality of education and training we provide – there was an article here over the weekend about the ‘gender pay gap’ stating the fact that seemingly since 2014 there has not been any noticeable uptake in females for STEM ( science technology engineering and maths ) in ireland – and yet the jobs that pay the 100k salaries require these skills – so perhaps someone can join the dots and start to encourage young women to shift from the abundance of hair beauty and makeup courses that they flock to in abundance and instead more should start considering the STEM subjects – these higher skill positions pay high salaries regardless of gender.

@Craic_a_tower: oh come on. Leopardstown is an easy commute from pretty much anywhere in Dublin. It’s off the M50 by car and has the Luas and plenty of buses. There may be a number of jobs requiring language skills but hopefully they can be recruited from people already here. It won’t be like a lot of big companies that opened here in the last 15 years or so where the majority of positions go to people from other countries.

@Dave Hammond: The girls that do hair and makeup courses aiming for STEM careers? Huge difference in the education level required for both named careers… Money to be made in both areas it’s up to the comfort level of the individual too.

@Joe: or they could rent in Cherrywood where 8,000 homes are being built and will probably be complete and on the market before these jobs come on stream.
There’s some positive news for you!

@Joe: with the luas straight from Cherrywood to leopardstown.

@Eddie O’Reilly: what do you mean? A house hopefully, maybe apartments? Loads of choice out there for those who work and have good paying jobs ..oh wait were you trying to potentially blame the government for this?

@Eddie O’Reilly: God, does every good news story have to be brought down to this? It’s 1500 jobs, it will allow people already in work to progress, which creates entry level positions for grads and people coming to Ireland to compliment the workforce. But yeh, let’s whinge about housing.

@Paul Power: they will pay the same tax as the rest of us.

@Paul Power: some of the Left leaning Parties want to double the tax rate to nearer 25% and think all will still be good.

@Paul Power: Hopefully. And if they are late we will charge them a 29.9% interest rate on everything outstanding

@Paul Power: Where will they live?

@Ciaran O’Mara: 8000 homes being built in Cherrywood less than 10 minutes away on the luas.

@Paul Power: of course they’ll pay tax!

@Carlin Ite: the employee will certainly be paying tax.

@Ashley Rowland: ordinary people earning 70k between them can borrow 245k (and more if exceptions are granted). Add a 30k deposit and you’ve 275k for which there are plenty of houses available, particularly in west Dublin.

@Ashley Rowland: 10% are social housing.

@Ashley Rowland: I think Cherrywood development is “build -to- rent” scheme.

@Ashley Rowland: 70k pa is roughly 4,500 a month between the 2. A couple only need a 1 bed apartment
Even if rent is €2,600 that would leave €1,900 pm for food and clothing, more than enough!
Do you need anything else? Cause once you have a roof over your head can heat and light your home and feed yourself everything else is a luxury.
People do not have a right to go away to the sun every summer, own a car, have a spare bedroom, go out to restaurants.
If you do want the above then I suggest improving your skills and increasing your value!

@Joe: what about a couple with I child?

@Charles Alexander: don’t have kids if you can’t afford them. They’re also not a right!

@Joe: if only life was as simplistic as it is in your world.

@Shem: Because the modern world is built on scale, because the people who work for companies of this nature want access to the types of facilities offered by large cities and because there is a large qualified labour pool residing in Dublin and it’s environs that they can dip into. Some people seem stuck in the 1970s and the notion of the IDA advance factory. The world has moved on.

In terms of the need to better plan I entirely agree. But if people in rural Ireland think that their job prospects are going to improve when so many wish to live in one-off houses outside cities, towns and villages they are deluding themselves. Increasingly jobs are going to be concentrated in areas of population. That’s the modern world. If you want the idyllic rural lifestyle there’s a price to be paid.