GDA - Secondary Economic activities

Question 1

What is the GDA

Answer 1

The GDA is a core socio-economic region of Ireland. It consists of the counties Dublin, Meath, Kildare and, Wicklow. The region is characterised by a strong economy and favourable physical conditions. This makes the region highly developed which promotes employment and a higher standard of living.

Question 2

Secondary economic activities

Answer 2

Secondary Economic activities like manufacturing are plentiful in the region.
Secondary economic activities refers to the process of processing raw materials and manufacturing them into finished products.

Question 3

Education

Answer 3

The high level of 3rd level education in the GDA contributes to the development of industries.

The GDA has a young educated workforce with over 45% of people under the age of 25 providing a workforce and market for manufacturers.

Third level colleges like Trinity, UCD and, DCU provide graduates in fields like marketing, business and engineering.

Because of the large amounts of graduates, the region has become particularly attractive to the IT sector.

5 out of the 10 software companies have located their headquarters in Ireland.

Companies like Intel, IBM and, Microsoft employ 12,000 people in the region.

Question 4

Airport

Answer 4

Dublin airport as the largest airport in Ireland allows employees from around the world to fly into Dublin City for business meetings in offices in Dublin.
Combined with this is the extensive network of Bus Links (Quality Bus Corridors), the Dart and the Luas, which encourages business throughout the region

Question 5

Transport networks

Answer 5

The highly developed transport networks encourage the development of industries in the GDA.
All roads radiate from Dublin from the M1 in Belfast and the M11 in Rosslare Harbour.

This transport system gives manufacturers in the Dublin area access to a countrywide market.
As cargo is imported into Dublin Port, it can be transported all over the country via the radical road networks.

Question 6

Financial services

Answer 6

The region is also a financial services area.
E.g. IFSC.
This has encouraged manufactured to locate in the region as financial services are available.

Raw materials for the manufacturing sector are also provided by the productive farming economy, particularly in North County Dublin.
This has led to the development of food processing industries like Bachelors.

Question 7

Moving away from dock lands

Answer 7

Many industries have moved away from the traditional location in the docklands.
This is where the importation of goods was important to the location of the m aufactirung industries.
These industries have moved to industrial estates and business parks that run along the M50 motorway that are connected to the Dublin Airport

These industrial parks are the location of the pharmaceutical sector, which is the most rapidly expanding manufacturing industries in the GDA.