Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

That is the activation programme with the live register. When Waterford Glass closed in Dungarvan and over 200 workers were made redundant, we were in there immediately with the IDA, Enterprise Ireland and FÁS. Only approximately 20 are still out of work. A couple of hundred jobs were lost in Motorola and the three agencies went in as quickly as they could, past management and the company structures, to help the people start their own businesses and ensure that they could avail of FÁS training programmes. The IDA tried to assess their skill sets to match companies that might come in. IBM came in and bought an indigenous company, Vallent and employed approximately 150 people in the software development area. The programme is activated quickly in response to redundancies.

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