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

The Government is running out of excuses for not acting on this issue. It could hide behind the law the first time it arose but this is the fourth or fifth incident in the last six months. Game's workers want to know what the Government intends to do about their immediate plight in terms of putting pressure on the administrators and assuring them that their applications for statutory redundancy will be fast-tracked. I spoke to one individual who has worked for Game for 20 years. During all those years this individual has been producing profits for Game, which can walk away after sucking profits out of its workers. It is possible that, as in the case of Jane Norman, the stores will reopen after being sold off and these workers will be left with nothing? What is the Government going to do about it, in the immediate term and more generally?

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