Employment increased across all three of Enterprise Ireland’s core sectoral divisions in 2025
In spite of the ongoing dynamic business environment, and against the backdrop of a decade which featured a series of extraordinary global economic shocks, Ireland’s tenacious entrepreneurs continue to demonstrate remarkable resilience, and these latest results from Enterprise Ireland’s client base reflect the strength and ambition of our indigenous enterprise base.
Our clients continue to operate in a changing global environment with market uncertainties
Enterprise Ireland’s End of Year Statement results show total employment in our client companies hit 232,425 in 2025. Importantly, 69pc of the 12,608 new jobs were created outside Dublin, with all nine regions recording jobs growth.
Employment increased across all three of Enterprise Ireland’s core sectoral divisions in 2025. Food and Sustainability companies now employ 69,295 people, a 6.5pc increase on last year; Industrial and Life Sciences companies employ 101,747 people, a 2.5pc increase; and Technology Services and Consumer companies employ 61,383 people, a 4.9pc increase.
Several sub?sectors, including Climate Tech and Renewable Energy, Fintech and Financial Services, High?Tech Construction, and Housing, had particularly strong performances, signalling the broad-based resilience of Irish enterprise.
These positive results demonstrate resilience and confidence among our clients, who continue to operate in a changing global environment with market uncertainties, cost and availability of talent, cost pressures and infrastructure constraints, all featuring as challenges.
Enterprise Ireland is committed to supporting companies to start, compete, scale and connect, and to achieve their global ambitions.
These companies are economic pillars around the country, and invested €42.65bn in the Irish economy in 2024. This is money that is being spent on wages and services, going into towns and villages across the country and supporting vibrant local communities.
These companies are economic pillars and invested €42.65bn in the Irish economy in 2024
Enterprise Ireland’s wider performance in 2025 also reflects increasing ambition among Irish exporters. The agency directly invested €49.5m in equity last year, leveraging €440m under its multi-stage investment strategy, supporting companies at every phase of their scaling journey.
To continue to grow in global markets, Enterprise Ireland will support the Irish enterprise base to focus on competitiveness and business transformation, by strengthening leadership, investing in skills and innovation, driving productivity, to keep decarbonising and accelerate AI adoption.
We were delighted to publish these results on behalf of our enterprise base at the Dublin office of our client company Origina, which last week announced a major expansion supported by Enterprise Ireland.
This Dublin-based firm plans to create 350 high?value jobs as part of its global growth strategy, and will establish a new technology?focused headquarters in Sandyford.
This investment is expected to contribute up to €28m annually to the Irish economy, and further strengthens our position as a hub for high-value technology roles.
It is our long-term goal that Irish-owned exporters become the main driver of the Irish economy
Origina specialises in independent software support and maintenance for some of the world’s most complex enterprise systems, and this expansion will see new roles created across software engineering, security, data and AI.
It is our long-term goal that Irish-owned exporters become the main driver of the Irish economy.
As we look to the year ahead, the commitment of Irish companies to innovation, internationalisation and AI-led transformation provides a strong foundation for continued, sustainable growth.
Enterprise Ireland is committed to backing this ambition, supporting Irish firms to scale globally and create high-value jobs in every region of the country.
Mark Christal is Executive Director for Sectoral and Client Solutions at Enterprise Ireland
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