Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

The workers are owed €4.4 million by a company that, as the Taoiseach himself stated, stands to make extraordinary profits from the development of the site. We stand to lose two factories and we have to build a biofuel plant when the factory in Carlow might well have been adapted for that purpose. The company can buy in developers into its new shareholding structure. The company will make a fortune from the development yet it refuses to pay workers their due entitlement. They asked me to put a question to the Taoiseach, not to seek his sympathy or agreement. The Taoiseach could scarcely disagree. The facts are clear. The workers want to know what he is going to do about it.

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