Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)

I am sure these units go across all Departments, and the response would probably be the same. I have a question relating to Mallow sugar factory. The Department of Agriculture and Food negotiated a comprehensive deal for the producers. Does the Minister intend to make a case for the workers who lost their jobs? Would the Minister argue for a common industrial policy, to deliver the same benefits to workers that the Common Agricultural Policy has to farmers? I hear that the workers are very dissatisfied with the deal they have been offered, yet they are as much victims of the restructuring of the sugar industry as the producers.

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