Mr. Donal Travers:

A consultation process is ongoing with many of the companies that are in the public domain. In many of those cases, nobody has been laid off yet and obviously we hope that the numbers could be fewer than those in the statutory notification to the Department.

From a practical perspective, the way it works in my team is that every company has a relationship manager in my team so it is very close to the management and leadership teams within those companies. In some cases, particularly at the moment, the conversation would be very regular. As the numbers are being discerned and the detail is being gathered, we will profile that detail and share it with other companies we know are hiring and try to match up those skills.

To add to Ms Buckley's point, where there is a training need, we have our training supports we can offer to companies and we do deploy those where possible. It also involves introductions to Skillnet Ireland, which has programmes like the pathway to tech skills; Fastrack into Information Technology; and Solas so there are lots of other State supports that can be brought on board. As a first measure, it is about profiling impacted skills at the earliest possible opportunity and making other people in our global teams aware at a really practical level of the skills and profiles - not down to the individual name but, say, ten people in customer service, ten people in engineering and so on and the type of skills they have so that other companies in our network are aware of the type of things that might be available.