Buy more products from Irish firms, Humphreys encourages multinationals

The Minister for Business Heather Humphreys wants multinational companies based here to buy more products from Irish firms, after the OECD found that only 15 per cent of their supplies are sourced here.

The aim is part of the state’s new Future Jobs strategy, which aims to deepen the links between multinational and local businesses.

Humphreys said it was about getting Irish companies in to meet the “right people” in multinationals to show ...