Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

I thank the Ceann Comhairle. We ended up paying taxpayer's money to Greencore to knock down the plant and are now going to build a new biofuel plant. Having facilitated this, even the few bob due to the workers under the agreement is not being paid to them. It is utterly unacceptable that a major company such as this should evade its responsibilities to the workforce and trample all over social partnership. Greencore will not even answer the request from the Secretary General of the Taoiseach's Department to attend the national implementation body. I want to know, as do the workers at Carlow and Mallow, what the Government intends to do about it.

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