Motor assembly industry employment
Employment in motor vehicle manufacture and assembly, including parts, was estimated at 5,300 in September 1982. Mac Giolla raised the EEC treaty deadline and threatened job losses, but the Chair ruled that policy questions were outside the scope of this statistical question.
asked the Taoiseach the number of persons employed in the motor assembly industry in Ireland.
Comment on this
, Dún Laoghaire): The number of persons engaged in the manufacture and assembly of motor vehicles, including parts, was estimated as 5,300 in mid-September 1982, the latest date for which information is available.
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: Is the Taoiseach aware that Protocol 7 of the Treaty of Accession to the EEC allows for the continuation of the assembly industry only until 1984?
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: Deputy Mac Giolla will appreciate that his question is purely statistical and that questions of policy or other extraneous matters which could be for another Minister do not arise.
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: I ask you to understand that the question has been put down to the Taoiseach as a statistician and my supplementary question is addressed to the Taoiseach as Leader of the Government. I am asking if he is aware that the 5,000——
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: It is long-standing practice here that statistical questions addressed to the Taoiseach are taken by his Minister of State and are answered by giving purely factual information and do not form a forum for questions on policy.
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: Is the Minister of State aware that those 3,500 jobs will not exist next year? What does he propose to do about it?