asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he is aware that large numbers of men who formerly received regular employment in the Benduff and Madranna quarries have been discharged, and whether, in view of the acute unemployment prevailing in the district as a result of the discharge of the employees in question, he is prepared to reconsider previous applications for a grant from State funds to enable development work to take place at the quarries in question, with a view to permitting the re-employment of a number of the men discharged.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Quarry Development Work.
I am not satisfied that any new factors have arisen which would warrant a revision of the decision by my predecessor that grants out of Employment Schemes Vote moneys cannot be recommended for the quarries referred to.
Would this be a new factor—that the quarry has completely closed within the past week and that about 70 men are now out of work?