Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

The Minister can answer on the generality. Has he taken into account the judgment in the Robins case in the UK which gives the impression that the Waterford Crystal workers should be entitled to a greater share than they are receiving? Those staff feel utterly abandoned. They have received no support. Changes were made to the pensions legislation at that time which utterly ignored the situation in which they found themselves. They did not come out any better as a result. I will ask the Minister specific questions on the directive. Does he believe the directive has been adequately transposed and that he will win the case? There seems to be very strong evidence that he will not and that he will put the country to enormous expense and that the result will not be as he expects.

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