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 Mid West - Unplugged Speaking in the Dáil recently, Deputy Noel Coonan described as ‘really maddening’ Minister Eamon Ryan’s comments that he anticipates an increase in the demand for high speed broadband into the future.
Deputy Coonan asked about progress in creating a ‘one-stop shop’ to which the Minister for Communications said the context for the proposal is ‘the anticipated increase in demand for high speed broadband into the future.’
In response, the North Tipperary Fine Gael TD said:
“In the three years since I have been a Member of the House, I have heard the Minister pontificate about what he is doing in terms of broadband and set targets which he has consistently failed to meet. To hear him say he anticipates a demand for high speed broadband is really maddening, especially if one comes from my region of the mid-west which has a higher than average rate of unemployment. Shannon Development has stated clearly that the most significant barrier to job creation in the mid-west is the lack of a high speed broadband system. It is simply not there. Metropolitan Area Networks have been in the ground and waiting connection for years and it is frustrating for broadband providers and the general public. I would like a time-frame and for the Minister to state when this will happen. He could have given this answer last September. I do not want to listen to the same story from the Minister next September,” said Deputy Coonan.
Ireland is still behind the EU average broadband penetration rate and there is less broadband penetration in rural areas than in urban areas. Ireland’s ranking in the EU’s Broadband Performance Index is 23rd out of 29 countries.
Ireland, is grouped in the fifth and lowest cluster group with Latvia, Hungary, and Estonia. The socio-economic context is more favourable in Ireland than in the other countries, but high prices and low speeds, limit its performance, as a result of weak competition. High prices, low speeds and limited rural coverage, hold back performance for the whole group.
 Company: La Creme
Address: 4th Floor, Wallace House, Maritana Gate, Canada Street, Co. Waterford, Ireland
Tel: 051 309651
Website: www.lacreme.ie
Required in Thurles – Logistics/Transport Administrator, to join their team.
The Role:
Organise deliveries to end customers.
Administer dispatch dockets and loading sheets.
Liaising and coordinating the transport staff.
Booking of finished products and delivery of the same.
The Person:
Minimum of 1-2 years experience in similar role.
Good organisation skills and attention to detail.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Good PC skills, particularly Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook.
Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate confidently with employees and clients at all levels.
Location: Tipperary.
Payment : €24000 – €27000 per annum.
Category: Secretarial / Admin / PA.
Terms: Permanent, Full-time.
Contact: Stephen Rose – E Mail: srose@lacreme.ie
Click Here for details.
The Phone Stores, Thurles Shopping Centre, are actively looking for ‘Retail Sales Assistants’ for their branch here in Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
Candidates applying for the vacancies should be highly motivated and capable of working on their own initiative. Sales experience in a similar background together with good communication skills and the ability to effectively promote and sell th eir product range, would be an advantage.
The company has a flexible approach to working hours (where necessary) and applicants should have educational qualifications of Leaving Cert Level.
The Phone Stores offers successful candidates a competitive basic wage plus sales commission, together with attractive staff discount and all posts offered are both permanent and full-time.
If you are interested in applying, then click here
The Gleeson Group , Borrisoleigh, Co.Tipperary, has agreed a €26m refinancing deal with its banks with a view to spending up to €25m on new acquisitions which may come about because of the economic downturn.
 Tipperary Spring Water Owned by the Cooney family since the 1970s, the Gleeson Group was initially a Guinness bottler but now distributes everything from soft drinks to beers and ciders.
Gleeson Group is Ireland’s leading supplier and distributor of beverage products in Ireland.
With 11 fully owned distribution hubs, the company have full national coverage and can deliver to every shop, restaurant, catering company, distributor, supermarket, public house, forecourt and hotel in Ireland, both North and South.
Established by the Gleeson family in the late 1960’s in Borrisoleigh, County Tipperary, Gleeson was a manufacturer of soft drinks and a bottler of the Guinness stout brand.
The soft drinks giant, best known, nation-wide, for its product ‘Tipperary Water’ operates a drinks and distribution business and currently enjoys a turnover of almost €250m.
In February M & J Gleeson (Investments) secured a new €26m facility from AIB, Barclays and Bank of Scotland (Ireland), which included the refinancing of a €12m loan originally taken out in 2007.
The Company has already bought out an Offaly distributor in recent weeks and seems confident that there will be further opportunities over the coming year.
Public demand soared for its Tipperary Water product, amid shortages of tap water brought about by recent flooding and frozen arctic conditions.
The Company currently employs a team of approximately 686 employees and despite some trading difficulties due to the economic downturn, declared no redundancies in 2009. This was partly due to good forward planning and timely action on product cost, which included a pay freeze accepted right across the total workforce.
Presently demand for agricultural sheds and other farm buildings are in poor demand in rural Ireland these days, but this has not dampened the efforts of agricultural shed manufacturers O’Dwyer Steel, one of Irelands leading structural steel engineering businesses, situated in Dundrum village in County Tipperary.
 The company have just completed the construction of a large animal compound, including swimming pool, animal accommodation and lifting equipment, for Dublin’s zoo elephant population.
As part of its new diversification program the company is also currently building a new farm in the heart of ‘the big smoke’, also at Dublin city zoo in Phoenix Park, Dublin 8.
This project will involve the construction of a miniature farmyard, to give Dublin urban-ites a true taste of farm life as experienced in everyday rural Ireland.
Milk just doesn’t appear in wax containers as some urban dwellers believe.
 Taro Pharmaceuticals Roscrea Taro Pharmaceuticals Ireland Ltd, what was once the flagship of employment in the Mid West region, is to cease operations with the loss of 31 jobs in Roscrea, Co.Tipperary.
Taro is a multinational, science-based pharmaceutical company, dedicated to meeting the needs of its customers through the discovery, development, manufacturing and marketing of the highest quality health care products.
The former Antigen Factory announced the closure despite a number of measures in recent months to attempt to save jobs at it’s Roscrea facility.
An angry Deputy Noel Coonan expressed deep regret at the announcement by Taro Pharmaceuticals stating:-
“This is another psychological blow for the town. After a number of fake dawns, this once great Antigen factory will finally grind to a halt. This former Antigen, now Taro Pharmaceuticals, has historically provided meaningful employment in Roscrea for many decades but now the locks and bolts will be chained on the gates.
It’s a sad day for the town of Roscrea and for all those who worked there.
This closure of Taro Pharmaceuticals brings to mind the comments of Denis Brosnan, Chairman of the Mid West Task Force when he recently said that the Government and State Agencies such as the IDA and Enterprise Ireland have failed the Mid West Region. This is certainly true of Roscrea and I’m calling on the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Mary Coughlan TD to direct the necessary resources and expertise towards Roscrea in an attempt to stop the hemorrhaging of jobs.
In Roscrea over the last two years job seekers payments are up by 987 or 100%. The time for talking has long since passed. It’s time for action. For too long the Government, through the State Agencies, failed to deliver infrastructural development to North Tipperary and in particular to the Roscrea region. Numerous areas are still without high speed Internet access despite the richness of the Celtic Tiger era. This lack of competitiveness and infrastructural shortfall exists as a result of flawed Government policy. It is a major hindrance in attracting companies to the area and an issue I am continually highlighting to the Minister of Communications. The highly skilled employees who worked in Taro Pharmaceuticals will now become another number on the dole queue. My heart goes out to all who have been left jobless and their families. It is shocking that this Government, the Greens and the Independents who support it, are so willing to bail out the banks while preying on the little people,” he concluded.
Here is an interesting job, for anyone in the 18 -21 year old category, currently being offered through jobs.ie.
It is also a warning to those in the off-licence business who may be slow to request ID when selling alcohol or tobacco products.
The job posted reads as follows:
Mystery shopping: 18 – 21 year olds required to visit off-licences in Thurles only
Grass Roots Ireland are currently looking for Mystery shoppers in THURLES only to pose as typical customers for an off licence.
Applicants must be 18 – 21 years of age as we want to see if they are asked for ID when making a purchase.
Mystery shopping is occasional, flexible work; it is not part time employment.
 Grass Roots Ireland If you are interested in receiving more information on this please answer the questions below and we will email you with further information. (Please note that you do not need to upload your C.V)
YOU MUST HAVE EXCELLENT WRTITTEN ENGLISH SKILLS
Location Various
Payment From 13 euro upwards
Category Call-Centre / Customer Service, Miscellaneous, Marketing / Market Research.
Terms Contract, Part-time
Last updated 20/01/2010
Contact Grass Roots Group
Click Here if you wish to apply.
 Dole Queue Latest CSO figures revealing an additional 188 people joined the dole queue in North Tipperary over the month of December. This is a rise of 3% from 6,385 to 6,573.
Over the month of December, Nenagh’s local office saw the largest jump with 96 extra people signing on. The corresponding figure in Roscrea was 55 and in Thurles the number was 37.
North Tipperary has experienced a 189% increase in the number of people under-25 signing on in the last two years. This percentage represents an additional 884 people. Thurles fared the worst over the same time period with an extra 368 joining the dole, in Nenagh the figure was slightly less at 345 and in Roscrea the number was 171.
The Fine Gael TD Deputy Noel Coonan stated:
“Unemployment jumped by a whopping 52% over the last year alone in North Tipperary. An additional 2,239 people signed on between December 2008 and December 2009. These figures are astounding and a very real sign of this Government’s gross incompetence. Nenagh fared with worst with a 57% increase over the same period. There was a 51% increase in Roscrea and 47% rise in Thurles. Unemployment rate has reached a 14 year high and nationally there are 426,700 people signing on the live register, the highest number in history. It’s clear the Government is more interested in saving banks than getting people back to work. The recent Budget is proof of this with a strong absence of any comprehensive jobs strategy.”
Fine Gael believes the Government should immediately introduce a Job Creation and Job Retention package. This should include:
1. An across-the-board cut in the Jobs Tax (employers’ PRSI) to stimulate job creation;
2. An aggressive programme to reduce the high cost of doing business and restore competitiveness;
3. The provision of 30,000 education and training places for the young unemployed through a National Internship Programme and second-chance education;
4. Introducing a Workshare scheme in industry to enable employers to keep more people in employment on a part-time basis;
5. Adopting Fine Gael’s NewERA plan to invest €18 billion in infrastructure by re-tooling the semi-States and making them engines for growth.
The Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment has made ‘poor progression’ in handing out lump sum payments owed to employees, according to Deputy Noel Coonan. In September, the redundancy section was processing claims for June 2009. Today the department is still handling claims for the same month.
 Deputy Noel Coonan “Two months on and the Department is still stuck dealing with claims received in June. I accept there has been an exceptional increase in applications lodged over 2009 but with the Government predicting an extra 750,000 people on the dole next year, the Department should be trying harder than ever to significantly reduce waiting times in preparation for this. People are relying greatly on these payments for financial security and they are entitled to be promptly paid their entitlements,” said the Fine Gael TD.
“The recent Budget did not provide a comprehensive strategy to get people back to work. We do not want to be complaining about the queue of over 42,000 people waiting grimly on their redundancy payments. We want to be able to say that people have faced the worst and our economy is recovering but this Government continues to lead us down a bleak path.
Figures released to me through a parliamentary question show the redundancy section is currently processing rebate applications submitted by post from March 2009 and those filed online from April 2009. This means the waiting time is approximately eight to nine months. The Government is not providing an efficient system at a time when recession is biting and people are in desperate need of what is owed to them,” continued Deputy Coonan.
Since January last, the department have processed 45,201 claims. However, there are 42,591 claims still waiting to be processed.
Deputy Coonan has submitted parliamentary questions to Tanáiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughlan T.D., asking her to outline the number of people in North Tipperary waiting on redundancy payments but the Minister was unable to provide such figures.
The number of incoming redundancy claims is up 96% on the same period last year.
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