AmCham 2026 Budget Submission
July 2025 FDI Insights Survey
AmCham has today launched its Budget 2026 submission: Ireland 2026: Bridging Economies, Leading Change – Pioneering Prosperity in the Transatlantic Relationship. The recommendations within this submission focus on six key priorities that are essential to enhancing Ireland’s overall competitiveness for business and talent:
Over 90 percent of AmCham members plan to increase or maintain employee numbers over the next 12 months, according to the latest AmCham FDI Insights survey.
The survey found that 60 percent of respondents plan to increase the employee headcount at their Irish operations over the next 12 months, while a further 32.5 percent said they will maintain their current employee numbers.
9 in 10 survey respondents also say their corporate headquarters have a positive view of Ireland as an investment location, and 68 percent said their corporate headquarters already have plans to invest in Ireland over the next 5 years.
AmCham’s 2025 US-Ireland Business Report: ‘Succeeding Together: Driving Transatlantic Innovation and Trade’, tells the story of the resounding success and impact of the two-way US-Ireland business relationship. A success story that has resulted in job creation, in research and innovation, in the development of world-class talent and in the prosperity of both countries, with economic growth across both Ireland and the US continuing to outpace competitor jurisdictions.
This success is built off a two-way, mutually beneficial investment relationship, where Ireland is the 6th largest investor in the US and Irish companies now employ more than 118,000 people across all 50 US states. Meanwhile, there are more than 970 US companies employing 211,000 people across Ireland.
US companies operating in Ireland continue to hold a positive view of Ireland as a location for investment and growth, according to the latest AmCham FDI Insights survey of members conducted last week, which found that 9 in 10 respondents report their corporate headquarters holds a positive view of Ireland for investment. A further 80% of respondents also said they would continue to have a positive view of Ireland as an investment location if tariffs were imposed by the US on the EU.
Some 63% of members surveyed said a skilled and highly skilled talent pool is Ireland’s main competitive advantage which has led their company to invest and expand here. However, almost two-thirds (64%) also identified skills gaps in their organisation with digital and data (23%), engineering (21%) and machine learning and AI (19%) the main areas of concern.
AmCham launched it’s 2025 to 2027 strategy: Competing for the Future, in which it outlines the opportunity for Ireland - built on a pedigree of delivery and can-do attitude - to capture the next wave of growth and support existing investments to thrive. AmCham’s strategy 2025 to 2027 is built on five strategic pillars:
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