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

Frankly, it beggars belief.

Lastly, I have a genuine request. Four hundred workers at Lufthansa are facing the loss of their jobs. Lufthansa is a German company and all the workers want is a fair redundancy package and for a €12 million deficit in their pension scheme to be filled by the company. It made €261 million in profits last year and it has massive accumulated profits. Will the Taoiseach ask Angela Merkel at the margins of the European Council meeting to put some pressure on Lufthansa to do a fair deal in order that those workers who face the loss of their jobs at least get a fair redundancy deal and have the deficit in their pension fund filled by Lufthansa, which is a very profitable company?

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