Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

-----and now they get bailed out and the workers in those sectors suffer. The challenge for the Government is to give comfort, certainty and opportunities to those workers. What about their redundancy packages? Are they secure? The Minister should be in a position to tell the House and to offer more than vague rhetoric about skill sets. This is a specific sector. It is most unlikely that people in the banking sector who are now going to lose their jobs will be re-employed in that sector. What will the Government, which is all about jobs, re-skilling and retraining - that is also about cutbacks - do to ensure those workers get back to work and to some kind of business as usual?

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