{"id":507809,"date":"2026-06-19T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/507809\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:15:10","slug":"wdc-report-finds-e10b-in-economic-activity-generated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/507809\/","title":{"rendered":"WDC report finds \u20ac10b in economic activity generated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A report from the Western Development Commission has found that state investment of just over \u20ac30m has generated more than \u20ac10b in economic activity.<\/p>\n<p>It also found that the Western Investment Fund has cumulatively supported nearly 100,000 job-years.<\/p>\n<p>The report on the impact of the Western Investment Fund was independently researched by Indecon International Economic and Strategic Consultants on behalf of the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>It found that over 25 years since the fund began in 2001 it has generated \u20ac10.8b in economy-wide revenue, returned \u20ac635m to the Echequer, and cumulatively supported nearly 100,000 job-years, all from an original outlay of \u20ac31.75m.<\/p>\n<p>The WIF, which invests on fully commercial terms across counties Mayo, Galway, Sligo, Roscommon, Leitrim, Donegal, and Clare, currently supports over 6,000 full-time jobs in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Launching the WDC Report today, Fianna F\u00e1il TD for Mayo and Minister for Social Protection Dara Calleary said; \u201cThe Western Investment Fund has played a vital role in unlocking economic potential across the Western Region since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery investment,\u201d he continued, \u201cthrough the Fund represents jobs created, families supported, and communities made more vibrant and resilient.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A report from the Western Development Commission has found that state investment of just over \u20ac30m has generated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-507809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}