Sir, – In her article “Tech sector needs to dig far deeper in philanthropy field” (October 23rd), Karlin Lillington writes: “Multinationals are part of their local community and should be involved in giving back to it”. The American Chamber of Commerce Ireland could not agree more. That is why we commissioned independent measurement of our members’ social impact in Ireland. The study found that our member companies support over 4,000 community-based projects in Ireland and they support the donation of 160,000 volunteer hours by their employees to these projects every year. This is in addition to the very significant financial and non-financial donations made by our companies and their employees.
Our member companies are very proud to have created 130,000 direct and 100,000 indirect jobs in Ireland. We are equally proud that, every day, we are enhancing lives in communities throughout our country. – Yours, etc,
LOUISE PHELAN,
President,
American Chamber
of Commerce Ireland,
Dublin 2.