David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Thanks. In situations where a company is changing but not necessarily entering insolvency, and redundancies come in on a staggered basis in small numbers, how is the 30-day period calculated? Where does it start? Is it when the redundancies reach a certain threshold of numbers? I ask our guests to explain that. Could companies let people go over a period of time and avoid some of the penalties here and some of the implications of the legislation?