Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their presentations. First, I pay tribute to the Debenhams workers for their struggle. The very least the Dáil can do is to rapidly work through and pass this legislation and to try to make sure that no future workers are put in the situation they were in. We went through the Clerys situation and then with Debenhams everybody said if only we had done what we were meant to do after Clerys and that there must not be another group of workers like that. Is it fair to say that Ms McElwee has sympathy for the plight of the Debenhams workers?

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