Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Expectations can go wrong, as the Minister knows. Will he take steps to ensure, first, that the delivery companies, not the LCDCs, will be required to have their headquarters within the area in which the programme is to be provided? Second, will the boards of the delivery companies be required to be reflective of the community and voluntary organisations within the area in question? Third, does the transfer of undertakings regulation apply in respect of the positions currently held by staff in the local development companies?

In other words, if somebody new wins the tender will the staff be covered under the transfer of undertakings regulation?

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