Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)

The Comerama workers have left me in no doubt that they believe they made their decisions on foot of a particular outcome which ultimately could not be delivered. They believe they would not have made that decision if they were not in a position in which they had to make it on that basis. Many of the Castlemahon workers believe that if they had been given information that was made available at the time of the initial restructuring, they may have been prompted to accept the enhanced redundancy offer at an earlier stage. That is one of the difficulties that is thrown up by cases of this nature. I cannot predict how such difficulties can be dealt with in the context of new legislation. I will take on board a point that has been made by all Deputies, which is that every effort should be made to address this issue and to come up with a formula, even if is a fairly complex formula that tries to address each of those quite different cases. Such a formula cannot be included in this legislation.

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