Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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I have a point to make that is not directly related to what has been said, but I just want to mention it because it relates to news breaking in my constituency on the Wavin factory. The factory is moving quite a substantial amount of its production to England, which will come as a huge blow. I intend to correspond with the Minister on this matter. Balbriggan is one of the biggest towns in my area, an area that experiences considerable underemployment. Most of the workers who live in Balbriggan leave it in the morning as they do not work in their local area. Wavin is a big employer in the area, so the news about it has come as a shock to many. I wish to flag to the Minister that I intend to correspond with him on this. I know there will be no difficulties associated with the Department in working to do all that is possible. I understand decisions have been made but there may be a role and scope for intervention. I will correspond with the Minister on that, if that is acceptable.