Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I express my solidarity with PayPal employees and staff at Google, all of whom are anxiously awaiting news about prospective job losses this week. It is a worrying time for those in similar positions. It is just the latest in a series of announcements of layoffs and redundancies across the tech sector worldwide. It is not just in the tech sector; I met just this week with employees of Argos in my constituency who are also facing similar news. Workers and their families will pay a high price in these cases. Will the Government initiate a review on the effect of job losses, particularly those being announced in the tech sector, for indigenous businesses and jobs here? This will affect local cafés and bakeries, cleaning services and legal services. We are conscious that job losses in tech will have a knock-on effect in other sectors too. All of us are very conscious of the concern and uncertainty for those affected.

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