Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Corman Miloko announced on Friday that they were closing the company. This was formerly owned by south Tipperary farmers, Avonmore and Glanbia. It is now a consortium involving a Belgian group and Tirlán, an Irish company, and 31 jobs remain at the plant. They are excellent jobs and it has been an excellent workforce over the half century I have known it.

I ask the Taoiseach ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to engage with the company to see if the jobs can be saved and what other uses the plant can be put to. It is in a good location on the N24. The town of Carrick-on-Suir and that area of Tipperary has been decimated with job losses over the years and this is the final straw. The people in Carrick-on-Suir Business Association are doing their best to develop the town but we need these flagship industries that have been there for decades. We need intervention. It has been announced for June. Can it be staved off?

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