Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----which gave rise to a dismissal. The deciding officer had the facts as presented by the individual and also supplied by the employer when the case was examined, which confirmed what the applicant had represented when they came in as being part of the particular circumstances of the case. They have now decided to have an oral appeal and that will afford a greater opportunity to check out the facts.

As the Deputy will know, large numbers of people are granted jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance. This particular case is complicated by the circumstances which gave rise to the employee's dismissal, notwithstanding that they had been with the employer for 11 years.

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