EU Regional funds could help build flood defences – Harkin

EU regional funds could be used to help
build flood defences. That’s according to the Independent MEP Marian Harkin.
She says she got reassurances from the previous EU Commissioner for Regional
policy that Ireland could use EU regional funds to build flood barriers. Ms
Harkin is calling on the Government to establish an overall body responsible
for flood prevention to ensure places like the Shannon region don’t suffer from
the kind of flood damage they have endured recently. 

Out words: the Shannon

Dur: 00:29 

Harkin slams Department and Minister for failing Bose workers

Former workers of Bose could have benefited
from EU assistance if the Department of Skills, Research and Innovation had
applied for EU help. That’s according to the Independent MEP Marian Harkin. The
Midlands North-West MEP says the Bose workers, who were made redundant last May
following the outsourcing of their work to other countries, would have been
entitled to EU help from the EU’s Globalisation Adjustment Fund. But Ms Harkin
says the Department and its Minister Damien English wrongly decided not to
apply for funds from the EGAF scheme.

Out words: anybody else

Dur: 
00:31

 

Government failed to get EU funds for Bose Carrickmacross workers – Harkin

The Independent MEP Marian Harkin says the
government failed to secure vital EU assistance for former Bose workers in
Carrickmacross. Over a hundred people lost their jobs last May following Bose’s
January announcement that it was closing the Monaghan plant and moving
production to Malaysia and Mexico. Marian Harkin says the Bose workers should
have benefited from assistance through the EU’s globalisation adjustment fund.
But, she says the Department of Skills, Research and Innovation wrongly decided
not to apply for EGF assistance for the Bose workers.

Out words: that application 

Dur: 
00:25