Ms Dara Breathnach:

That area of people who have been in seasonal employment is quite complicated. If they have routinely been in seasonal employment with the same employer, it would appear to me that they should be entitled to redundancy payments in the normal way if they are not now taken back on their seasonal employment in the future. There is nothing in the general scheme which directly addresses those. If they normally had been working at the same time of a year on a routine basis over a number of years and they are not taken back for the next season, it would appear a redundancy situation may arise but that is by what is deemed the normal operation of the law to all intents and purposes and not anything that is directly covered in this general scheme.