Protecting the Irish Economy Against Increasing Trade Tariffs: Motion [Private Members] Dail Éireann — 2025-04-09 ============================================================ Alan Dillon (FG), Mayo They are not providing political solutions to the challenges we face. I wonder whether the Deputies have met many of these high-quality employees who provide a unique service to these companies that are extremely important to rural Ireland. If we look at the number of jobs in the regions, these companies provide more than 31,000 jobs in the west. More than 16 companies, as I said, are providing more than 5,500 jobs. These are, then, far from transitional jobs----- --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2025-04-09/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:53:42+00:00 Sitting date: 2025-04-09