News on Dell jobs expected in ‘day or two’

DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea expects an announcement from Dell “over the next day or two” on the future of the company’s Limerick plant.

Mr O’Dea said that while the Dell situation was not on the agenda for today’s meeting of the cabinet, he would be raising it as a matter of importance.

Dell employs 3,000 workers in the city and there are fears that it may shed up to 2,000 of its workforce as the company moves to outsource manufacturing at its nine of it plants worldwide.