Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State has not answered my question. The Department sets the terms and conditions. In the case to which I refer, the woman was in employment for 20 years. The guidelines issued by the Department have changed several times since then but no one bothered to look at her contract. The sponsoring organisation is now open to a charge of unfair dismissal because the Department did not take the proper action and did not recognise the fact she should have had a proper pension. One of the reasons supervisors wish to continue in some cases is that their pensions will be too low on which to survive.

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