Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have had the opportunity to meet a number of the Clerys workers, many of whom were there for 40 years or more. I want to say formally on the record of the Dáil that I thank SIPTU for making its premises available to facilitate the Department of Social Protection going in and giving very extensive help and assistance to workers in relation to their entitlements. The people who come first at the moment are the workers. They should get those redundancy and insolvency entitlements which are their right in law as soon as possible. If the Deputy is suggesting we should use legislation in some way to up-end their entitlements under current legislation-----

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