Killybegs Jobs Claim Challenged By Deputy Pringle and Local Business Man John Shine

Reported by Donegaltoday.com reporter Sue Doherty

A claim that the Killybegs Jobs Task Force has already delivered 80 Jobs has been challenged by a local TD and a local TD and a Local Businesseperson.

Thomas Pringle TD and John Shine of the Fishing For Jobs campaign both say the claims is premature.

The Task Force was set up in July to identify how 250 jobs could be created in the Killybeg aread over the next three years. Its Report was submitted to Minister Simon Coveney three weeks ago and he is set to formally launch it next Wednesday in Dublin.

Sean O’ Donoghue, Chairman of the Task Force, told the Democrat on Monday that 80 of the 250 jobs had  ” ALREADY BEEN DELIVERED” and were ” ON-STREAM“, mainly in seafood processing. However, it was not possible to obtain exact details of the jobs.

A bim Spokesperson said yesterday that the jobs announced are ” projected” to be created over a three year period under the seafood processing business investment scheme. She added: “Under this scheme, company details must remain confidential so BIM are not in a position to outline the specifics set out under the companies business plans”.

FALSE HOPE TO THE PEOPLE OF DONEGAL

Deputy Pringle said he was very disappointed that Monday’s statement referred to job projections rahtn than jobs that are up and running.

“On that basis, you could say that they dleivered 250 jobs at the launch in July.”It’s all just projections. Hopefully these jobs will be created but at this stage it’s an aspiration, not a reality. It’s creating a false hope to act is if the jobs are actually there on the ground now.

“It’s also vitally important to ensure that what jobs are created are, in fact, new jobs and not simply redeployment of existing jobs. There has to be a net gain for the Town.

Thomas also states “I hope this isn’t going to go the way of the Government’s Jobs Initiative, which was launched with great fanfare but then it proved impossible to find out what jobs had actually been created”.

FISHING FOR JOBS

John Shine of the Fishing for Jobs Initiative agreed with Deputy Pringle. ” John states that he is calling on the members of the Jobs Task Force to substaniate their claims of delivering 80 Jobs.

As John says ” our group (Fishing for Jobs) welcomses any new jobs for KILLYBEGS. However, we are not convinced that task force can take credit for delivering 80 jobs since they were formed in June 2011. Some of the new jobs in KILLYBEGS were already in the pipe line…………………………

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