O’Keeffe: People misled over Amgen jobs

OUTSPOKEN Fianna Fáil backbencher Ned O’Keeffe yesterday once again criticised the Government, blaming it for raising false hopes about the proposed 1,100 Amgen jobs.

Speaking yesterday after the American biotechnology giant announced it was indefinitely postponing plans to locate its European HQ in east Cork, Mr O’Keeffe accused his own Government and its ministers of painting a rosy picture of the prospects of Amgen locating there in contradiction of all the available evidence.

“The people of Cork East were misled during the General Election,” he told the Irish Examiner.