Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

I am trying to offer advice and clarify the process. There are insinuations across the House that the Government was not prepared to give financial assistance to SR Technics. That is factually incorrect. We offered assistance in a package throughout the local management recovery project. We offered assistance to the successful bidders in the normal context in which we can offer support for training, re-employment and employment. I refer to the suite of offerings that are available to a company through our State agencies. Therefore, it is untrue we were not present to offer support. We will continue to engage with these companies in the normal format in which we all support companies-----

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