Dell: what should be done now

I WOULD like to express my heartfelt sympathy to all who have lost their jobs and who are otherwise in any way affected by the end of production at Dell in Limerick.

While I feel that much more could have been done to prevent this disaster, I wish to make two suggestions for mitigating it.

EU competition rules will not allow us, as an older EU country, to do as Poland has done — give State aid to secure jobs.