Dell departure would decimate Limerick economy
AN IRISH politician has warned that Dell's threat to abandon its PC building plant in Limerick will hit the local ecomomy hard.
Fine Gael member of the Irish parliament Michael Noonan said the Limerick economy will be decimated if Dell packs up and leaves. Noonan has already been told to keep his comments to himself, but he can't.
"The workers in Dell and the people of Limerick are entitled to know the full facts and it's my duty as their elected representative to try on their behalf to establish what those facts are," he said last week as Tánaiste Mary Coughlan arrived in Limerick to assess Dell's future there.
She reportedly met with Dell executives over the weekend and appears to want Noonan to keep quiet while she negotiates.
But Noonan said, "It's not feasible to be tip-lipped for six months because the uncertainty grows, the rumours spread and it's a bad situation for everybody.
"This has to be brought to a satisfactory conclusion and I believe that Minister Mary Coughlan has an absolute responsibility to preserve the jobs of the Dell workers in Limerick," he continued.
Dell employs around 3,000 at the Limerick plant, all of whom are anxious about their futures as Dell mulls plans to quit manufacturing altogether. µ
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Belfast Telegraph
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given dell doesnt have to pay back any of the 75,000,000 eurobucks the irish government so kindly gave them, where as in poland and the like they do have to, well errrrrrrrrrrrr, unless the irish chuck some more good money after bad at these shisters im afraid no ammount of kissin the blarny stone is gonna save the leprachauns employed by dell O_o

when oh when are the irish overlords gonna learn to stop giving away cash to these sort of firms without any conditions attatched ???? O_o
Nobody is manifacturing notebooks or pcs in Europe or US, they are just assembling parts from China.
Please use the word manifacturing with care :-(
I worked for Dell ages ago. When I was there these deals would involve being given a large parcel of land and a building for free as well as many years of tax free operation all out of the public purse as the price for moving in.

Things would go well for the first three years. Then things would be scaled back, managers would be given impossible productivity targets and be turfed for not meeting them, workers would be squeezed and then the inevitable layoffs.

But in the end there was always the building and the land,..... If those Limerick politicians had some brains they would do a little investigating of the previous deals including the ones made with Dell's proxies like Solectron or even Stream before they were bought up.

Wouldn't it be illegal to start a business with the implicit plan to profit from taking land and tax money out of the public coffers? Perhaps it would just make the politicians who made the deal rather stupid.

Love,

Nemo