Sorry to hear to Alison. Real world economics as you point out.

This has everything to do with Kenny. I was made redundant a year ago and one of the reasons was because the government changed the percentage of redundency paid that an employer could claim back so companies panicked and let staff go. They are in front of the cameras when new jobs are announced but they do nothing for those losing their jobs.

Seamus sorry to hear you were made redundant but companys dont just make people redundant to clame relief on it the business was more than likely in alot of trouble before the government decided to alter the relief

They are not voluntary. 206 will go. No choice there. The voluntary part is that you can nominate yourself to be one of them. If they get enough that way. It’s fine. After that its LIFO

Everyday we lose on average 42 jobs

Whats your basis for that ?

Cso calculation – over last 20 months

Agreed..unfortunately many of the “business” people of the last 10 years are now bankrupt/ turned out to be crooks

A restructuring plan. Always used in the real world unfortunately. Never in the Public Sector.

I’ve said it before…but what would u do differently? I genuinely want an answer and I’m not trying to start a fight..I feel like more could be done..but what? Taxes are bad for people but they are probably necessary, as with cuts in some instances..but honestly what else would you do? Where would u get cash to run the place?

Julie there is job losses all across europe and america .. You cant blame it all on enda and co .. We wont recover untill america& eurpoe shows recovery

For starters by not spending more than you raise in taxes. Seems fairly radical………..

Now remember I do not have an advisor worth 100,000 or so of tax payers money.

Would have defaulted on PN, Michael Taft said no consequences to defaulting on it
Would not have poured so much money into clearly failing banks
Would have demanded a write down.
Would have caped salaries of civil servants 100,000
Scrapped allowances
Reduced pensions of the likes of Bertie
Means test child benefit
Scraped property tax( people are getting nothing for that money)
Taxed wealth instead if low earners.
Put in more favourable rates for our natural resources
Locked up corrupt politicians and bankers not let them walk away with massive pensions and bonuses and hire them elsewhere
I agree with SF budget I just think it is fairer and more equal. Populist is what governments and their followers like to call it but I disagree.
As I said there has to be alternatives to something that is not working we have tried 4 years of austerity where has it got us. It doesn’t work and if it continues there is a lot more hardship and the economy has not seen the worst of things yet.

Jay funny you mention job losses in the rest of Europe and America, they both are following the monetary policy of austerity clearly not working for them.

julie so your answer to the question is that enda cause the job losses because he has an advisor and has implamented austerity and is cutting the counrties finance bill by taxes ans ==d cuts .. you must not have been here in 2007 when we went bust i suppose that was endas fault aswell how dare he do that .. governments can be blamed for alot if things but the loss of 100 jobs in tipperary surley isnt one of them … “THE MAN” cant be at fault for everything julie

Jay that is rubbish we wouldn’t be in such a bad state only for the goverment paying debt we dont own.

Enda and Co are to blame in most cases.

iswhatitis please explain how they caused this? baring in mind they were not in power when we went put and they also can force people to buy good or services from companies

They turned a gambling debt into a sovereign debt Jay.

Eamon that didnt cause the recession. The recession came first

They’re process is heavily dependant on front line operators and like all big manufacturing faculties they’re trying to lean up and automate that process as much as possible. The redundancies won’t effect the engineers too much as they’re looking for 188 op’s to go

Really? You’d think someone would have said something????

That though first crossed my mind about five years ago now!

Another blow to the South-East. The region has been worse hit by the recession than anywhere else & now more job losses. & worse still, the government is trying to downgrade the regions hospitals & force the regions people to travel to already overcrowded hospitals in Cork & Dublin. There’s a big march in Waterford City on Sunday. There’ll be a huge crowd & the government might finally get the message that enough is enough & stop these mis-guided plans to break up the SE health boards to please vested interests in Cork & Dublin.

5 years and no improvement, what do the next 5 years hold for us ordinary working class people. Scary thought.

Think your comment sums up a lot Julie.

The march is in Saturday 2pm starting at Ballybricken in waterford city – especially important for those in south tipp as Clonmel hospital will not fare well if the south east hospital network is broken up.

I think it’s Saturday TFM.

Another silent protest that will make the news for 10 seconds.its time for the people of ireland the stand up for themselves no more silent peacefull protests

I would agree Shane. We need to go a la Francais. But you have to have unions who are not protecting a Government party on order to do so.

Yes it cant involve the unions and lets do it on a week day and cause real disruption instead of doing it on a saturday and getting a permit of the cops to do it.every town and city has goverment buildings they should be picketed and if the cops want our suppourt hopefully they wont be heavy handed.

Sorry. My mistake. Saturday at 2. Ballybricken to Mall.

The Abbott Vascular Clonmel facility manufactures vascular products, i.e stents and catheters. These products are used in hospitals, these products are not available over the shelf, and these products are certainly not available in Spain for less than the price of a pint.

I was in the Canaries last week, and I bought a year’s supply of catheters for a fiver. We’re being screwed in this country.

Sinead, I think you’re confusing the product made in the Abbott Clonmel facility with another entirely different type of product. The catheters made in Abbott Vascular Clonmel are vascular catheters used to treat patients with artery blockages. The people in Clonmel are making a sophisticated product, which is only marketed to hospitals, and are only used by physicians. Due to this there is no such thing as having a personal years supply.

Yeah I bought 6 months supply of pacemakers in France last week for a tenner each,… Jeez⬇

That’s what Kenny would have you believe Liam..it’s all his fault..open your eyes