Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I ask for an update on the status of the Protection of Employees (Collective Redundancies) Bill. Figures this week show that the administrators who looked after the sale of Debenhams in Britain made £5.3 million in fees alone. It makes you wonder how much KPMG made out of the disposal here. Workers here received a training fund after a year on the picket line and protesting. What is the status of legislative protections for workers? We need to ensure that we never again have cases such as Debenhams and Clerys. I stood with the workers from Debenhams at the gates of Leinster House last week. They know this legislation will not apply to them, but they want to ensure that what happened to them - they were treated disgracefully as the Taoiseach has acknowledged - will not happen to another group of workers. We need to progress this legislation as a matter of urgency.

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