Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

The Minister of State said his legal opinion may be that these redundancies will not be liable to further redundancy payments that would ordinarily apply if a company is closing. If that is the route to be taken will he outline further the real consequences for the workers involved and the whole proposal from the company? What would that lead to given that he has signalled that may be the way he will proceed? If this is, as we see it, a race to the bottom in terms of replacing current working conditions and staff with those from economies of lower pay demands and conditions how are similar occurrences to be restricted from happening across a whole range of different Irish industries and businesses?

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