Questions for IDA on east Cork job outlook

THE IDA will be quizzed today on what it is doing to find new jobs for east Cork in the wake of the shock collapse of the 1,100-job Amgen project last year.

A delegation from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment will meet senior IDA officials at the firm’s abandoned site in Carrigtwohill this morning.

They are on a two-day fact-finding mission to economic blackspots in Cork, Tipperary and Waterford.