Global management consultancy Accenture is to create 100 IDA-supported jobs over the next four years at a new centre in Dublin. The company already employs 1,300 people in Ireland.
This is the first significant jobs announcement since the world's focus switched to Ireland for all the wrong reasons.
The announcement comes despite calls from some quarters abroad, during the height of the national debt crisis, for our 12.5% corporate tax rate to be reviewed.
In addition to management consultancy, Accenture provides technology services and outsourcing, and has more than 200,000 employees in 120 countries.
It is headquartered in New York but since last year it has been incorporated in Ireland. The new jobs will be based at a new research and innovation centre and will involve advanced statistical modelling for companies and governments.
Accenture has six other such centres around the world and the companies clients include 75% of the Fortune 500 global companies.
