Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 December 2025

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment

Protection of Employees (Employers' Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage

2:00 am

Photo of Peter BurkePeter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)

We are happy to work across Government on that. First, this is aimed at cases where the shutters are pulled down but the employer or the business has not gone through the statutory process to wind up the business. That is what we are trying to resolve here. About 220 employees per annum could be captured by this cohort. We have to look at the look-back period, which I mentioned in my opening statement, and in respect of which there could be significantly more to resolve. In relation to those who are on redundancy, we are working with the Intreo offices. In particular, the Fastway case was one on which we did a lot of outreach with our Department and the Department of Social Protection, advising employees about their job status and their ability to get other work, particularly coming up to Christmas, and getting key payments from the Department of Social Protection. We are happy to work and fine-tune our response to give people the best information possible. I am happy to take that on board.

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