asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce whether he proposes to introduce proposals for legislation to deal with cases such as that at Sallybrook, Glanmire, County Cork, to require industrialists to make adequate provision for their employees in the event of the transference of their business to other centres; further, whether he will state what steps, if any, he has taken to secure that the industry hitherto carried on at Sallybrook for more than a generation will be resumed so as to preserve the last of the rural industries in this district.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Preservation of Rural Industries.
The answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. I do not consider that legislation of the kind suggested could be made effective. I have no power to take steps of the nature suggested in the second part of the question.