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

Can he show the same energy, enthusiasm and urgency when it comes to protecting the rights of workers which are being trampled on in a whole series of cases by rogue and unscrupulous employers? I am asking a very specific question in this case, where we are talking about one of the biggest companies in the State, which has been a huge beneficiary of State support, including a big portion of €220 million in windfall profits from the carbon allocations regime - free profits - and where the CEO was on €2.7 million a year, yet the company will not pay workers moneys owed to them which the Labour Court has recommended should be paid to them. Those workers have been forced to march around outside those plants for the past three weeks when they want to go back to work.

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