Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy has tried to skew the debate into a personality issue. The bottom line is that Motorola has had international difficulties with some products and the Cork plant operates in a technological area that has created difficulties in that it has reached its plateau in generating revenue. We and the company were hoping that we could get other activities and projects into the plant to diversify, much as Apple did ten years ago. That depends on getting mandates from corporate headquarters. That is how the system works. It is not that everyone sits around hoping companies close. There is no wish to do that. I respectfully suggest to Deputies Allen and Lynch that I am as committed to sustaining jobs in Cork as anyone else in this House. It is somewhat farcical for people to suggest otherwise.

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