Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There may well be grounds for reviewing the Government's jobs strategy. We are ahead of the job creation target we set in the Action Plan for Jobs - 100,000 jobs. We are now two thirds of the way through the period of that plan which is to last until the end of 2015 and are ahead of our targets. Obviously, I am concerned about the announcement made this morning in Newbridge and my thoughts are with the employees affected by it. Changes are taking place in the pharmaceutical sector. The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and IDA Ireland are working with the industry and companies in the protection of employment, but they are also looking at where there are opportunities to create new employment.

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