Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)

It is nothing short of scandalous that 173 employees of GAME stores across Ireland are not only losing their jobs but are denied their basic right of a redundancy package. It seems only a couple weeks ago we were here debating the similar plight of La Senza, Vita Cortex and TalkTalk workers. At the time, we asked the Minister responding what legislative proposals the Government had to address these matters.

A man in the Visitors Gallery today worked for 17 years for GAME but is now told he has no entitlements to redundancy. Is this acceptable in this day and age? This is 2012, not 1913. We need legislative change in the redundancy payment area. If not, we will have more workers filling the Visitors Gallery with similar stories in future. We need to close the loopholes in the existing legislation.

Profits were made by GAME and sent abroad. The workers in question are entitled to their redundancy packages. The Minister needs to deliver for them.

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