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OVER THREE HUNDRED jobs are on their way to Donegal at an eco-friendly campus run by a subsidiary of Prudential Financial.
Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton TD announced the plans by Pramerica Systems Ireland to expand its operation in Donegal today.
It will create 330 new jobs over the next three years, and said there is potential for further growth in the longer term.
The company will build a new state-of-the-art, eco-friendly office campus near its current location in Letterkenny to accommodate the expansion.
Pramerica is a professional shared services and technology subsidiary of the US-based Prudential Financial, Inc (PFI).
Though it is a little-known company here, Pramerica will have almost as many employees as Microsoft, which is Ireland’s biggest company with 1800 staff.
“Pramerica is delighted that we have reached this historic milestone just 15 short years since we launched our business in Letterkenny with eight employees,” said Caroline Faulkner, senior managing director and chief information officer at Pramerica Systems Ireland.
Location
The new site is around 1km from Pramerica’s existing facility in Windy Hall, within the same business park.
The first of two construction phases will begin during the last quarter of this year and will be completed by summer 2017.
The new premises will be able to accommodate up to 1,800 staff members, and is tentatively scheduled to open in mid-2016.
“We currently employ more than 1,200 people who are dispersed in four buildings. The new facility will bring them together in a single location,” Faulkner said.
In addition, it will give us the space we need to bring on approximately 330 new staff members over the next three years. The new job opportunities will include senior IT managers, project managers, business analysts, data scientists, actuaries, accountants and a wide range of technology support and professional services roles.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the news is a major jobs boost for both Donegal and the North West region of Ireland.
Minister Bruton met senior Pramerica executives on a recent USA trade mission. He said:
Jobs are growing right across the country, and unemployment is falling in every region – however the performance is better in some regions than in others. That is why we are putting in place regional jobs strategies, to accelerate job-creation in every region of the country.
Over 800 extra jobs have been created in Donegal in the last 4 years in companies supported by my Department – however we must do more.
Construction of Pramerica’s new business campus and the expansion of its business are being conducted with the support of the IDA, the Donegal County Council and the Irish government.
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The Ukraine has one of the highest rates of HIV and drug resistant TB in the world.
@icaniwont: yeahhhhh!!! Let’s not help people if they’re sick.
@icaniwont: it’s just Ukraine, not The Ukraine. Just FYI.
@Nomad: that is recognised as a human rights violation by the UN. You neglect to mention that having HIV is commonly used to deny residency rights, work permits and travel visas. It is a discriminatory practice that does little to prevent transmission but contributed massively to discrimination and stigma.
The best way to prevent transmission is to ensure that people get tested and are diagnosed and receive access to treatment to prevent onwards transmission. The best way to make this happen is to destigmatise the process and provide adequate access to treatment which represses viral load and prevents transmission. The worst way to do that is to continue perpetrate or replicate stigmatising practices. That is what all the best practice evidence shows and you will see that the countries that have such regulations don’t have have great detection rates and do not have lower transmission rates, they just discriminate unfairly against people because they have HIV which is not the end goal or desired result of any health policy.
The best way to prevent transmission is to be celebate. The second best way is to only have sex with one other who also only has sex with you.
@Tom Mullally: Is that your approach Father Mullally?
@Tom Mullally: Telling people to have less sex has never ever ever ever worked.
You can tell god-fearing evangelicals they’ll go to hell for all eternity for pre-marital sex, and still end up with eye-watering teen pregnancy rates.
The reason is obvious: access to services. It seems covid was the primary impetus to roll out the remote testing service, but even before the pandemic, it was incredibly difficult to get appointments even in Dublin (never mind outside Dublin). Many clinics didn’t even want to see you if you had no symptoms of anything, because they were so underresourced.
Yet you get the same tired response: be absinent and you’ll be grand. Because asking people not to have sex has always worked out so well historically…
PrEP is extremely effective in getting HIV transmission rates down, but it’s still only available in a limited number of venues with limited appointment availability.
Just a case of party mad and horniness after lockdowns.
@Jensen Bhroin: sounds very similar to covid cert that was welcomed
@SquintEastwood: ahhhhh nice work there. And the level of intimacy required to transmit covid is just the same as with HIV?
If we had meaningful access to PrEP rates would fall like a stone. 56 Dean St in London has done amazing work here. From a human perspective it’s just the right thing to do and being cold-hearted, a lifetime of PrEP is less than 1% of the cost of HIV treatments and interventions.
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