SIPTU and minister in last-ditch effort to save NEC jobs

A last-ditch effort is underway in London to save some of the jobs at NEC Semiconductors in Co Meath.

Officials from SIPTU, along with Minister Noel Dempsey, are today meeting executives from NEC.

More than 350 people at the plant are to be let go after the company announced it is to close its factory in Ballivor and move production to Asia.

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Micheál Martin said this afternoon that he is being kept up to date with developments, and what is important now is attracting investment to Meath.

“We’re working with Meath County Council, Enterprise Ireland, the IDA, and of course FÁS to first of all be of assistance to the workers and to do everything we possibly can to facilitate the workers in this situation, and then to see what we can do to increase the level of investment into Meath, and to ensure that we get the infrastructural issues, the roads and so on, right in terms of facilitating that, and we would be quite positive about that,” he said.