Here’s the RTE (Irish TV and Radio) news website today. It was also on air in more or less the same form:

Employers earlier warned that future investment by multinational companies could disappear with many job losses if they were forced to recognise unions.

No big deal there, just the usual threats. But here’s where the abuse of language comes in:

[Business lobbyist Turlough O’Sullivan] said Ireland has a huge constituency of multinational companies that we need to hold onto.

The word “constituency,” I think it is fair to say, is first and foremost associated with electoral constituencies. Multinational corporations are not constituents of any Irish politician.