Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I take Mr. Conaty's point but there were redundancies at the Port of Galway, where Bord na Móna had people working, as there were in Sligo. Bord na Móna is looking for 450 redundancies but the people affected will be 450 people with families who may get employment somewhere else but will be statistically unemployed from the day they take redundancy. They say in Offaly that the year they won the all-Ireland it was because so many of them were working in that area, either with Bord na Móna or because of Bord na Móna. There is no magic wand but, so far, there have redundancies in those areas and nothing else.