Speaking following the closure of
Irish Driver-Harris in New Ross, Oisin O’ Connell has accused the government of
having no plan to preserve existing employment and create new sustainable
jobs. The Sinn Féin local election
candidate has called for an emergency intervention to be made in an attempt to
save the 47 threatened jobs.
Mr O’ Connell said;
“Part of the failure for the
collapse of Irish Driver-Harris must lay with a government that is overly keen
to express its job creation potential but cannot deal with the core reasons for
the continuing closures of established businesses across Ireland. IDH has been part of New Ross for eighty
years. It deserves more than a snap closure. The employees deserve more.”
“Schemes like JobPath and Jobs
Bridge might offer enthusiastic statistics but creating low paid jobs that in
many cases are completely unsustainable is no match for saving and developing
long standing successful businesses. IDH
failed because it had no access to credit, was straddled with business rates and
had absolutely no support from either national or local government.”
“We are calling upon the
government to make an emergency intervention here to try and salvage these 47
jobs and to use this incident as a wakeup call.
It’s time to tackle the many issues that are strangling businesses out
of existence like upward only rent reviews, outrageous commercial rates, lack
of credit from banking institutions and lack of government investment.”
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