Enterprise Ireland Irish medtech client company Aerogen has announced details of a €300 million transformational scaling and investment plan, which will result in the creation of 725 new jobs in Ireland over the next 10 years.
This announcement was made in conjunction with Enterprise Ireland’s End of Year Results for 2024, which confirms 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.
Employment in Enterprise Ireland-backed companies in the West region was 17,633 in 2024, with 1,637 new jobs created representing a net increase of 963 jobs in the region.
EI Employment results
Companies supported by Enterprise Ireland companies now employ 234,454 people, an increase of 3% on the 2023 outturn with two-thirds of the total jobs located outside Dublin. 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% )
Méabh Conaghan, Regional Director, Northern and Western Region, Enterprise Ireland said: “2024 was another strong year with our client companies creating 15,741 new jobs and growing net employment by 3% nationally. Positive growth was recorded in the West region with employment increasing by 6% in 2024, with 1,637 new jobs created in the region. This is a testament to the hard work of our client companies who are hungry to achieve greater scale and expand their global footprint.”
“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 €30bn. 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.”
