News Special Waterford Day 2: People forging ahead in region

WHEN Talk Talk suddenly announced last year that it was closing in Waterford with the loss of 575 jobs, Minister for Jobs and Enterprise Richard Bruton said creating jobs in the beleaguered South-East was going to a priority.

He castigated the IDA’s job creation record in the area and gave them 30 days to come up with an employment action plan for the area.

Then this summer, he held a South-East Employment Forum in the city where he spoke of how since then another 30 jobs had been created at EirGen and 250 jobs at Eishtec, another call centre which recently won the customer services sales support contract for Orange Mobile.