Northern Ireland Assembly

Part of the debate – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 11:30 am on 6 March 2012.

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Photo of Sammy Douglas Sammy Douglas DUP 11:30, 6 March 2012

I thank the Minister for his statement announcing the strategy and plan. I was at Harland and Wolff shipyard recently with my colleague Peter Robinson. During our meetings, senior management said that they had a number of skills shortages. They stressed that flexibility from DEL officials was required with older workers who are very skilled but have maybe 80% of the skills needed to be a piping engineer or an electrician. They supported the work done to date but they encouraged us to ensure that the plan will have a flexibility of working —