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A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY in Dublin has announced expansion in the capital city which will create an additional 50 jobs.
BioMarin Manufacturing Ireland’s Dublin operation is responsible for the supply chain, logistics and high level commercial decision making. This includes price, distribution and third party contracts for the launch of enzyme replacement drug VIMIZIM which has, just this week, this week been approved by the European Commission.
The company will now begin recruiting for senior accounting, finance, customer service and marketing positions. Today the firm said it expects to have total employment of 200 people in Ireland by the end of 2017 – both in Dublin and in its Cork manufacturing facility.
Commenting on the announcement, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton said there had been “major successes” in the last two years in the pharmaceutical sector as regards job creation and this is a further boost.
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Good stuff. Keep those jobs comming.
Dublin again, just forget about unemployment outside the Capital.
That’s more like it, Maria, a much better whinge than Glen.
That’s not a winge, that’s a fact! Unemployment rates higher in rural Ireland, disposable income rates are lower, house prices are still falling. This is not people from rural Ireland slagging off our cities. We are simply highlighting the fact that we are being completely ignored. Rural ireland is dying at an outrageous pace!
Do you want our cities to die as well?
If you want a job in this particular pharmaceutical company you can always go for a job interview, commute or more to Dublin. Don’t expect everything to be handed to you on a silver platter.
Of course not Jack. I was just defending a fact about rural ireland which was described as a “winge”. I have a job thanks but if I didn’t I’m not sure a 350 km daily round trip would be viable
And on a side note. The answer to a collapsing rural ireland is NOT for everyone to move to Dublin (as I hear suggested regularly). Don’t you think rent, house prices, infrastructure and travel disruption is bad enough up there?
@James, you are obviously a Dub but we won’t hold that against you….
Why would they have a pharmaceutical business in a rural area? This isn’t about the government favouring the cities, it’s about businesses quite rightly wanting to be closer to universities for recruitment and somewhere with strong international transport links.
And if were a young science graduate looking to start a job, I don’t wanna go to Offaly or somewhere, no offense. I’d wanna go to a big city where stuff is happening. Simple as that.
Then when the young city population grows, older people move out to suburbs and rural areas and stimulate the economy there. Win win.
@ Maria, read this article you clown! http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/voxpro-jobs-boost-cork-1444852-May2014/
Maria, no I’m not a dub. My daughter commutes nearly 60 miles to Dublin every day, which is not easy especially with 2 small children, but I would rather this than skyping her and my grandchildren and maybe meeting every few years. I welcome job announcements no matter where because I believe in the old saying “a rising tide lifts all boats”
There are a lot of jobs in the pharma sector in the rural areas. They are all coming up in Galway, Meath, Westmeath, Donegal, Sligo, Cork and Kerry. That is a fact. It is a matter of looking around and seeing if you have the job requirements or not. We do not need to hear big announcements.
Maria, there are actually tons of jobs in pharma sector. There are a lot coming up in Limerick and Cork recently. It is a matter of having the requirements or not.
There doesn’t seem to be any pharmaceutical companies in the south east or many big multinational companies at all. Glanbia is based down there but is started it’s life down there.
Just what we need
More people making addictive prescription drugs.
Big pharma = legalised drug dealing.
Glen, if I set out to turn a good news story on the jobs front around to make it look bad, I’d be ashamed of myself if this was the best crap I could come up with.
James
Don’t be so hard on yourself lad.
This drug is an enzyme therapy for a metabolic disorder.
But hey, keep spouting the idiotic gibberish if it floats your tinfoil hat wearing boat.
Well Glen, congratulations, it’s only 8:30 and you have already managed to win Idiotic Comment of the Day.
Did u see his post in the Malaysian B777 story. He is an out and troll. Do not feed his happiness.
Wow Paul
Asking to end world hunger is the trademark of a troll in your book.
MH370 is now about as credible as a bed time story…
I thought that story had gone off the radar , boi
He is the journal’s new King Troll. I’m guessing he’s just one of the same old trolls with a new mask
I better step up my game
Yes large companies that will thrive on the next invented disease. Bill gates must be working ovettime.
Good man frank, yep, mucopolysaccharidosis is completely fabricated, yup.
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