Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The people of Mayo supported many of the projects Roadbridge was involved in. They thought it was going to create jobs. Little did they think they would be taking away jobs from established businesses. I will put on the record that this is wrong. Businesses that have been in operation, some of them for 30 or 40 years, and family businesses that have been in operation for 70 or 80 years, will now be put out of business by a company like this. The Government has to step in. I again say to the receiver, and it was in the Minister of State's reply, that another company will not come in to finish that project. We had the Shell to Sea debacle. We will now have another debacle but I will be with those businesses, as will Deputies Calleary and Conway-Walsh. We will not allow another contractor to come in unless our people are paid.

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