Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)

Currently, a total of 29,000 people are awaiting their statutory redundancy claims. That is an incredible figure. People are also waiting ten months to get minimum pay to which they are entitled from businesses that have been wound up. Has the Minister spoken to the Minister for Social Protection to ensure the issue is resolved for those individuals, many of whom are suffering greatly from the lack of income and are now waiting for the State to get its act together and to solve the problem?

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