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Quality of life

Quality of life

Work and life. Balanced.

  • A place to live, not just to work, Ireland offers an unrivalled quality of life - no matter where you choose to set up your business

  • Ancient yet modern, steeped in culture and history yet young, vibrant and open, Ireland is a superb location for your teams to call home

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Source the skills you need to make your investment in Ireland a success

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Ensuring social stability

Under its Project Ireland 2040 strategy, the Irish Government plans major public investments targeted towards vital infrastructure, together with developing wellbeing indices to track key metrics around quality of life.

  • A progressive tax system reduces income inequality and fosters social stability
  • High levels of public investment planned for housing, infrastructure and healthcare

Open, diverse, multicultural

You’ll find Ireland is an open, multicultural, multilingual place. We’re committed to diversity and inclusion in society and industry. According to InterNations’ Expat Insider 2021 report, Irish people are extremely friendly towards foreign residents.

  • 200 different nationalities represented in Ireland
  • 22% of employees at FDI firms in Ireland are international

Quality of life

Recognised international indexes rank Ireland among the best places in the world for quality of life, satisfaction levels, household income, education standards, health and life expectancy.

  • 2nd highest quality of life in the world (UN HDI)
  • Among the highest life satisfaction in the OECD

Variety of locations

Ireland’s regions have plenty to offer business, from the North-West to the South-West via the Midlands, while every corner of Ireland offers a wide range of leisure activities for all tastes and ages.

  • Regional locations offer lower living costs than urban centres
  • 65% of Irish professionals live outside Dublin

Young and dynamic

Ireland can rightly claim to be the most dynamic economy in the EU. We have the youngest population in Europe and one of the most educated and diverse workforces in the world — not to mention the most flexible and adaptable.

  • 34% of the population aged 25 or less (Europe’s youngest workforce)
  • Higher third level education compared to EU average (55.4% vs 39.4%)

Success Stories: Hear from leaders calling Ireland home

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Regeneron
State Street
Novartis
Qualcomm
Qualtrics
Vanguard
Biologics leader scales rapidly across two strategic sites in Ireland

Biologics leader scales rapidly across two strategic sites in Ireland

In order to make space in our New York facilities to accommodate our COVID-19 efforts, we needed to ramp-up capacity here in Limerick. Despite ramping up commercial production sooner than planned, my team hasn’t missed a beat. You can only perform like this if you have good people, and Ireland has lots of good people, so we are excited to be hiring 400 more.

Irish site chosen as one of only two global cybersecurity centres

Irish site chosen as one of only two global cybersecurity centres

We are a strong ecosystem with multiple parties, service providers like ourselves, management companies, commercial law firms, audit firms: it’s the synergy of all the different stakeholders working together… It’s the right balance between everyone having their own commercial imperatives but collaborating across an ecosystem that collectively facilitates growth and expansion.

Pharma giant’s 60-year history of investing in Ireland

Pharma giant’s 60-year history of investing in Ireland

The NGSC in Dublin is Novartis’s leading digital science centre globally. This is due to the fact that there is such a large amount of digital talent and a significant tech ecosystem in Ireland... We have an innovative team of data scientists and data managers who are harnessing the power of digital to revolutionise the way that we manage disease and ultimately get our medicines to patients faster.

Ireland is a strategic IT and engineering hub for chip giant

Ireland is a strategic IT and engineering hub for chip giant

Ireland is one of Qualcomm’s fastest growing R&D Centres, and the availability of talent and motivated people… are making meaningful contributions in terms of our technology roadmap.
Qualtrics Chooses Ireland for its Skills Base

Qualtrics Chooses Ireland for its Skills Base

Ultimately, what you want is a geography where you can build an office that has broad market coverage. For a company going into Europe, Ireland has the lowest cost to set up a business, with a broad pool of talent from across the EU
Ireland’s robust regulatory landscape a key factor

Ireland’s robust regulatory landscape a key factor

We are a steward of the assets of 50 million clients around the world. What’s important to them is that we are a trusted organisation, and the products and services that we offer are trusted. The UCITS framework, as overseen by the Central Bank of Ireland, has the interests of investors at heart. What Ireland offers is a robust and retail-oriented regulatory framework aligned to what we want to offer to our clients.

Reasons to invest in Ireland

Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Resilient and flexible infrastructure to support your business

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Quality of life

Quality of life

Work and life. Balanced.

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Talent

Talent

Find and nurture the people you need to make your business thrive here in Ireland

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Ireland's Economy

Ireland's Economy

An enduring location for investment

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