The Former Mayor of Limerick John Gilligan has accused the government of fawning over Dell ‘like peasants’ following the announcement of 300 new jobs for a financial services branch in Dublin.

‘They are just here to make money and have no interest whatsoever in Ireland and when they get as much as they can as quickly as they can, they’ll be off again.’

‘We had a Dell factory here (Limerick) and they had the highest productivity rate in the world, they had the least accidents in the world, they had the least absenteeism in the world so by any objective standards they were an exceptional workforce, but they simply upped and left and left people behind in a dreadful mess and many of these people are still in a dreadful mess so while people in Dublin may welcome it you have to understand that people in Limerick will look at it in a different light.'

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