Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

A long time has passed since the meeting we had at the Minister's Department, yet we have seen absolutely nothing happen. As I said, I have been told e-mails from SIPTU and the workforce have not even been replied to. I received an e-mail yesterday from the Minister and another this morning from one of the officials at Enterprise Ireland. There is foot-dragging. It is not the proactive approach on which I would have thought the Minister would have embarked, particularly in the case of something that affects his own constituents. For example, there is supposed to be an €11.7 million reinvestment programme, but we know nothing about it because the Minister, Enterprise Ireland and the rest of the group simply have not been engaged. The clear message is that people want to have the jobs retained in this historic plant which has always been at the cutting edge of food production. They do not want the Minister to come along and talk about people becoming entrepreneurs and so on, which, for many, is totally unrealistic. They want the Minister to save the current jobs.

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