Jobs task force hits out over inaction

AFTER nearly six months of government inaction on a major jobs report for the mid-west, a strong “put-up or shut-up’” message was launched at the Tánaiste Mary Coughlan yesterday by the head of the Dell task force appointed by her last year after the computer giant decided to pull out of Limerick with the loss of 2,000 jobs.

Denis Brosnan, in a forthright rebuke said: “The task force interim report recommendations have been with the Government for over six months now, and little progress has been made in implementing any of the 20 recommendations in the report.”

At meetings with members of the Oireachtas and the media in The Strand Hotel in Limerick, Mr Brosnan, who developed the Kerry Group into an international food giant, said his task force now needed a clear signal from the Government that their phase one proposals are useful and will be implemented.