Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

When will the Bill come before the House and what measures will be taken to deal with a situation where companies may try to get rid of their permanent workforce, as appears to be the case, before the Bill is enacted? In regard to the legislative programme distributed yesterday, emphasis was placed on job creation and economic recovery. Given that hundreds of jobs are being lost at TalkTalk and 450 jobs are being lost in Loughlinstown in south Dublin, in my constituency, I call for a serious debate on jobs and how to deal with getting jobs and the conditions under which redundancies are being imposed on workers.

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