Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We can keep looking for declarations of this and declarations of that. That will not resolve the problem. The Government has to make sure that whatever happens does not create new precedents elsewhere or allow certain employments and certain rogue employers, for want of a better term, in the future to just land everything on the State. That cannot happen either. I am not saying that is the case here. The company is in liquidation. I do not like the way the workers have been treated from the get-go. There should be stronger legislation to provide underpinning for collective agreements into the future in order that workers get their fair share along with others. I understand and have no issue with the motivation of the Deputies in trying to get a resolution to this. As for the precise mechanisms to enable us to do that, we are pursuing to see what can be done.

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