Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I agree with everything Deputy Murphy has said. I find the answer concerning. It talks again about the difficulties with ICT and states that while the university is engaging with the vendors to develop a solution for this, it is not clear that a viable software solution will be found. This is a university saying it cannot find a software system that allows people to get paid for their annual leave. I do not think this is an acceptable response. It is blasé. We are talking about workers and their entitlements. As Deputy Murphy said, in some instances these people are on short-term, temporary-type contracts and I do not think it should be up to them to chase their employer to get paid for the time that is owed.

I suggest that, at some point in the near future, we revert back to the university, while recognising that everybody is busy at the moment. I do know if there is a mechanism for us to revert back to this correspondence in January and then perhaps make contact with the university again.

Is that a possibility?