Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

With the greatest respect, while companies have closed in Cork in the past year, many of their employees have secured alternative employment. We will continue to work on that basis.

Motorola, like any other company, was entitled to tender for the Garda TETRA project. We cannot get involved in that process for obvious reasons. If opportunities arise from that, we will seek to exploit them. It will, however, be different from what was in play. It is unfortunate that the additional mandates that went to others did not go to Motorola's Cork facility. The greater the range of a company's activities, the better the chances of sustaining a reasonable degree of employment in it. That was a factor in this case, as well as Motorola's recent poor global performance.

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