Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

One had to be logged in and online in order to watch those videos. I was in the company of one employee shortly after she heard of the temporary lay-offs via a WhatsApp message she received from a colleague. That is not good enough and, despite of all the restrictions under which we are all living, there would have been better ways for that to have communicated that information from a human resources perspective.

My understanding is that Aer Lingus contracts are to the company and are not specific to Shannon, Cork or Dublin airports or the other bases from which the company operates. The contracts are specific to the company as opposed to the relevant airport.

Many of the cabin crew based out of Shannon rank among the most senior of the 1,600 cabin crew of Mr. Doyle's company. The standard procedure in most places of work is that it is a case of last in, first out but in this case, when lay-offs were on the horizon, it seemed that staff recruited in Dublin, some of them as late as last November and December, retained their jobs while some in Shannon who have been committed to the company for 20 or 25 years faced temporary lay-off. Will Mr. Doyle explain the logic behind that because it certainly seems unfair and tilted towards one side of the country?