Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will be in touch with the Deputy in the coming weeks to organise that. He can brief his 12 families on this. There is nothing more shocking and upsetting than to lose one's job. Getting the redundancy payment and holiday benefits to which one is entitled can sometimes help to alleviate the financial problems, but there is nothing worse than when a company becomes insolvent and then one cannot get one's holiday payments, statutory notice or redundancy settlement. I can very much understand the frustration felt by the 12 families in Clonakilty and by other families that have gone through this. Let us sit down and see where the blockages are in respect of the review. I assure the Deputy that the officials in my Department take this very seriously. It is not just in high visibility cases such as Clerys that this has an impact. We will work together. I am aware that we have a finishing line. Deputy Daly is as anxious as I am to make sure issues like this are resolved before we face an election next March and I will work with him to get a resolution to the issue.

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