The Department’s mission is to manage Government finances and play a central role in the achievement of the Government’s economic and social goals having regard to the Programme for a Partnership Government.
International Financial Services Strategy 2025 – Ireland for Finance
In April 2019 the Government of Ireland launched Ireland for Finance, its whole-of-Government strategy for the further development of the international financial services sector in Ireland to 2025.
The vision of the Strategy is for Ireland to be a top-tier location of choice for specialist international financial services.
The Strategy was launched by the Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe TD, and Minister of State for Financial Services and Insurance, Michael D’Arcy TD.
The employment target for the Strategy is to reach 50,000 people in direct employment in the sector by 2025. This compares with 44,000 people directly employed in the sector at the end of 2018.
The Strategy is structured around the following four pillars:
- The operating environment pillar focuses on ensuring the policy, culture and legislative conditions underpinning international financial services will support growth.
- The technology and innovation pillar focuses on providing a collaborative approach to addressing emerging challenges and opportunities in technological developments.
- The talent pillar which seeks to ensure that we continue to have skilled people to meet the demands of the international financial services sector, including meeting new and changing skills.
- The communications and promotion pillar focuses on ensuring that Ireland’s international financial offering is communicated to all those who are or may be attracted to investing in Ireland.
Three horizontal priorities apply across the four pillars: regionalisation , sustainable finance , and diversity.