Background to the Dublin Enterprise Zone

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The location of the Dublin Enterprise Zone, on the edge of Dublin City allows easy access to 1.2 million consumers, and numerous suppliers.  The Dublin Enterprise Zone can access a readily available, educated and professionally skills workforce.  The flexible ‘can do’ attitude of Irish workers has been recognised throughout the world as a great advantage in business.  The Dublin Enterprise Zone workforce is particularly mobile, internationally focussed and highly motivated and the area has a stable industrial relations environment.   Ireland ranks first for availability of skilled labour in the world and is No. 15 in terms of overall global competitiveness, according to the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2014.  The same report rates Ireland in third place out of 60 countries for encouraging business development in an Executive Opinion Survey of 4,300 executives across the 60 ranked economies.

The Dublin Enterprise Zone provides a quality location for doing business and a superb quality of life for employees.  Infrastructure such as roads, water, drainage, electricity, gas, telecommunications and broadband are all available.  Blanchardstown is home to Ireland’s leading Shopping, Leisure & Retail Park Destination the Blanchardstown Centre.  Blanchardstown Centre offers a unique shopping & leisure experience and is home to over 180 stores, 3 Retail Parks and 25 Restaurants.  The Dublin Enterprise Zone is also located in an area that provides a wide range of public parks and golf courses.  Quality homes are available in great locations at affordable prices while health needs are met by numerous acute hospitals in the Dublin Region.  Families can also enjoy high quality community facilities, sports clubs, parks and playgrounds.

The Dublin Enterprise Zone has all the requirements for business success with low operating costs, low rents, low commercial rates and Ireland’s corporation tax rate of 12.5%, among the lowest rates in Europe.  Apart from the attractive tax and costs structure, businesses in the Dublin Enterprise Zone also benefit from a world-class telecommunications network.  The M50 motorway, which is Dublin’s main orbital route serves the Dublin Enterprise Zone and the recent M2/N3 link road provides an alternative route to Ireland’s International Airport, Dublin Airport.  The M50 links to the M1 which is Ireland’s main North-South Transport Corridor linking Dublin to Belfast, the island’s second largest city.  The M50 also connects Fingal to the South of the country and links up with the M7 and M8 motorways, the main routes to Limerick and Cork and the M4 and M6 motorways linking to the west and northwest of the country. (top)

Well Served by Road, Sea and Air

1. The Dublin Enterprise Zone is exceptionally well served by road transport links.
2. The Dublin Enterprise Zone is exceptionally well served by sea transport links, due to its proximity to Dublin Port.
3. The Dublin Enterprise Zone is exceptionally well served by Air transport links with Dublin International Airport being a short distance away.
4. There are five separate Dublin Bus Routes traversing the Zone.

The Dublin Enterprise Zone consists of 1571 hectares of land primarily zoned for Office, Research & Development, High Technology Manufacturing, Industrial, General Enterprise and Employment.  It consists of 779 businesses, 16,920 employees and 1.18 million sq. m. of building floor area.  Half of the Dublin Enterprise Zone has been developed.  There is the potential to create an additional 20,000 jobs on the 716 hectares of undeveloped, zoned and serviced land available in the Zone.

Quality of Life

•  Infrastructure such as roads, water, drainage, electricity, gas, telecommunications and broadband are all available.
•  Blanchardstown is home to Ireland’s leading Shopping, Leisure & Retail Park Destination the Blanchardstown Centre.