Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion

Photo of Paul GavanPaul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chair for his patience. I want to revisit an issue. I am genuinely not happy about the response I received regarding the issue of European works councils. Reference was made to a couple of complaints. It is much bigger than that. I want to quote from the letter the Minister received from seven of the biggest trade unions in Europe, which states:

When the management of Kingspan denies our right to set up a new WC and when the Irish judicial system fails at allowing our rights to be enforced it is all of the 11,100 Kingspan workers in Belgium, Ireland, Germany, France-----

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