Government officials are still awaiting a reply from local company Probiotec over whether or not there will be redundancies at the firm in the coming weeks.
The Australian healthcare firm opened a plant at the Finnabair Industrial Park in March 2010 as their European manufacturing headquarters for a range of dietary replacement products.
The business has been going from strength to strength ever since but the future of jobs at the plant have been thrown into doubt in recent months after Probiotec was acquired by LS Nutricare Ltd last September.
Rumours of redundancies have been rife at the facility since then with People Before Profit Alliance TD Brid Smith raising the matter in the Dáil this week.
She asked Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Mary Mitchell O’Connor whether she has made contact with the company to help avert redundancies.
In her questioning Deputy Smith said that one of the reasons given to workers for redundancies at the company was that the lease had run out on their current premises, a situation which also led to eBay announcing their decision from Dundalk last year.
In response the Jobs Minister said Enterprise Ireland had written to the companyabout the matter last month but were yet to hear back.
Minister Mitchell O’Connor said: “I understand that Probiotec Ltd, an Enterprise Ireland client, was acquired by LS Nutricare Ltd in September 2016.
“LS Nutricare Ltd is an Irish subsidiary of a Seychelles registered entity called the Lilium Stanley Group. Officials from Enterprise Ireland made contact with LS Nutricare Ltd in December 2016 in relation to the ongoing situation in Dundalk and are currently awaiting a response.”
Pictured above: Julie Sinnamon, Executive Director Enterprise Ireland, Craig Lymn, Group Operations Manager Probiotec and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe at the official opening of the European manufacturing headquarters of Probiotec in Dundalk in July 2010.