Job agencies will be asked to help insurer’s employees

THE Government has said all state employment agencies will be deployed to try find alternative employment for the hundreds of Quinn Insurance employees who are to lose their jobs.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen said he sympathised with those who would lose their jobs. However, he believed the core business of Quinn Insurance was secure.

“This is a business that has a viable future and we need to work with the administrator appointed by the court and with the company to try and help as much as we possibly can to ensure we move on to a state of development for the company in a more sustainable place than it is at the moment,” he said.