Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)

Like Members on all sides of the House, I am familiar with the Castlemahon and Comerama cases. While the principles in those cases are somewhat different, I do not doubt that the effect of the cases, as Deputies Quinn, Hogan and Neville have suggested, has been to undermine people's confidence in the redundancy process somewhat. Many people have expressed their disagreement with the process used to deal with them because they have first-hand experience of the anguish it can cause. It is difficult to deal with this problem. If amendments Nos. 20 and 21 had been in order and could have been accepted, they would not have achieved precisely what Members on all sides would like to achieve in this instance.

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