Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

It is also important to say that a huge amount of work has been done involving huge interaction with the National Competitiveness Council. Discussions have taken place with the NCC and the other independent adviser to the Government and the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment at looking at exactly how we can be more competitive, how we can address those issues even though we have a considerable amount of work done and have achieved a good deal. It is important to reiterate that the pronouncements made in that speech are not the reason Pfizer has decided to downsize globally on the basis of an over-capacity it currently has within the biopharm industry in this country.

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