Jackie Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of urgent national importance, namely, the future of the employees of the Great Southern Hotels in Killarney and Parknasilla and also the Kerry area accounts officer placed in the Great Southern Hotel in Killarney. There are seven employees in this office from which all the accounts for the Great Southern Hotels in Killarney and Cork are paid. Are the jobs of those employees safe or will there be job losses? At present the assets and paintings are being taken out of the hotel at Parknasilla and removed by lorry and vehicles. I cannot say where they are being taken to but, as an elected representative from Kerry South, I should know if they are being taken for a drive around the Ring of Kerry or for a walk around the grounds of Parknasilla. I appeal to the Ceann Comhairle, to tell me where they are going and what is being done with them. The Taoiseach examined each one of these paintings and has looked at them over many years.

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