Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My engagement with the company has been done through the IDA, which manages the relationship with National Pen. Unfortunately, some jobs are going to be lost. The operations are being outsourced to eastern Europe, to either the Czech Republic or Hungary. These redundancies, unfortunately, cannot be prevented although there will be job increases in other parts of the company. National Pen remains committed to Dundalk, which is welcome.

We are advised that a decent or generous redundancy package will be offered to the staff. I do not know the details of that but we are advised that will be the case.

Obviously, from the Government side, we will make sure former employees and employees who are being made redundant get whatever help Government can give them in terms of help with job searches and information about welfare or other opportunities such as education, training and upskilling.

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