Deirdre Clune (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

I asked a question on the security of existing employment in the pharmaceutical industry and the Minister of State referred to the additional investment o which IDA Ireland is focused. I would like if the Minister of State could answer me on two issues that have come into the media recently. These are GlaxoSmithKline, GSK, which is reported to plan to cut back 6,000 to 10,000 jobs internationally. What steps has the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment taken to address that or to contact GSK to see if any jobs in this country will be affected? Pfizer and Wyeth employ 5,500 people in this country and Lipitor, one of the drugs that Pfizer manufactures in Cork, will go off the market in 2011. What steps has the Department taken in those two areas to ensure there will be no job losses in those areas in this country?

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