Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I got a phone call earlier that I would have much preferred not to have got relating to the technological giant, PayPal. There will be up to 85 redundancies happening in the next while. I received the usual commitments of enhanced packages.

In or around 900 people work at the Dublin site and 700 staff now remote work but would have formerly been on the Dundalk site. They are saying that these losses would be almost half and half. We would like to see some kind of engagement from the Government to ensure that it would be at the lower end of the figures and that workers would be looked after. The State should engage with people and facilitate further employment for them. There were some 200 redundancies in February. The company says it is still committed to Ireland. There needs to be engagement from the Government so that we can assure those other workers who are very worried - my heart goes out those who may lose their jobs - that there is a commitment by this tech giant company to Ireland.

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