Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

In the Visitors Gallery there is a delegation of workers from Lufthansa Technik Airmotive Ireland, 400 of whom have learned in recent weeks that they will lose their jobs. Sixty-five were laid off last week, with the remainder to go in the coming weeks and months. I am asking on their behalf whether the Government intends to do anything to seek to save and maintain this highly skilled workforce and the skills base they represent in an industry the Government has designated a priority. In addition, will the Minister address the question of the pension deficit left behind, in a context where, as the workers understand it, €40 million of IDA Ireland money was given to the company? What has become of that money and can some of it be retrieved to fill the pension gap or maintain the plant and the jobs it provides, thereby facilitating Ireland's involvement in this industry?

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