The State agency’s end of year figures for 2025 are due for release at the end of the month, statistics that are likely to reaffirm both counties position at the top of the development organisation’s employment ladder.
Those expectations come on foot of a parliamentary question from Cavan based Fianna Fáil TD Brendan Smith.
The long-serving Dáil deputy and his party’s parliamentary chairman, tabled a request earlier this week for the number of Enterprise Ireland supported jobs over the past 12 months and when compared to those of five years earlier.
Junior Enterprise Minister Alan Dillon, in response, said that while 2025 figures weren’t due to be published until the last week of this month, data from 2024 showed how Monaghan and Cavan were the top and third highest ranking counties for job creation under the umbrella of Enterprise Ireland.
More than 28,000 such positions, Mr Dillon stated, were created across the border region which also incorporated Louth, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal with Cavan (6,681) and Monaghan (7,644)accounting for over half, or approximately 14,325 posts.
“Despite the global crises and geopolitical challenges since 2020, EI-supported companies have delivered an excellent performance, increasing employment from 220,613 jobs in 2020 to 234,454 in 2024,” he said.
“In relation to the border region, counties Cavan, Monaghan, Louth, Leitrim, Sligo, and Donegal, the overall increase in employment also applies.
“In 2020, there were a total of 24,690 EI supported jobs in the region. In 2024, this had increased to 28,112 with all counties showing growth apart from Donegal which registered a slight loss between 2020 and 2024.”