Martin Ferris (Kerry North-West Limerick, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The concern I have for these workers is that many have a problem with this. At least one is a single parent with a young daughter and is living off €478.20 per week. That person will be spending a further €60 or €70 per week on transport without any certainty about whether there will be reimbursement. That is a serious problem. One of the people involved has a mortgage and all of them are in negative equity. It is a serious problem and it needs to be addressed. I hope the Labour Relations Commission will come down and grant them their entitlements but it is up in the air at the moment. I appreciate the fact that the Minister has stated he does not want any of his staff penalised as a consequence of redeployment, but it is important that there is some certainty for them for the future.

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