Sinéad Gibney (Dublin Rathdown, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The multinational tech company Meta has announced a new round of layoffs, with 5% of its workforce under threat. This is in the context of the chief executive of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, abolishing equality, diversity and inclusion programmes, stopping fact checking on the Facebook platform and essentially bending the knee to Trump in the same way we saw Elon Musk do when he took over Twitter. There are reports in the press today that Irish employees of Meta are very concerned that they are being arbitrarily fired. This new round of layoffs is using performance management as window dressing when the company is engaging in arbitrary firings. Does the Taoiseach share the Social Democrats' concerns about the lurch to the right of these tech companies and the impact that this will potentially have on workers and customers of these platforms? Is the relevant Minister meeting with Meta to deal with this matter?

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