Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I raise the situation in which staff at Ballincollog-based VMware find themselves as they face into Christmas. The company announced in recent weeks that it is restructuring and that there would be job losses, and that negotiations would be going on during December and January. Earlier this week, the company announced that 360 people will lose their jobs in the new year. That is a massive blow to the people themselves and the wider area, but especially to the 360 staff. That is more than a number. Those are real people with families, commitments, mortgages, hopes and aspirations, all of which are now hanging in the balance. The company will have been engaging with the Minister's Department. It is essential that it makes every effort to protect those jobs and that the job losses will be minimal. Will the Minister outline the efforts being made to minimise those job losses and to provide support to any people who lose their jobs?

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