Seanad debates

Tuesday, 27 May 2003

Sustaining Progress: Statements.

 

I use the same recruitment company nowadays and it is frantically trying to find people to fill temporary production positions for which they would earn more than the minimum wage. People are being hired on temporary visas from the United States and New Zealand, countries with which Ireland has agreements. The workforce in Galway is mobile and flexible because there is more work than the locals can handle. This should be mentioned, even though it does not take away from job losses. My heart goes out to people in places such as Donegal, which suffers because of its peripherality, and Waterford where jobs were lost at an engineering company.

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