Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

This Saturday, the film "406 Days" about the 406 days the Debenhams workers were in dispute with the Debenhams company will premier at the Dublin International Film Festival. It has just won the festival's human rights prize. One thing it highlights is that the Celine group, made up of three US hedge funds, Barclay's Bank and Bank of Ireland, walked away with £315 million from the liquidation whereas the workers who built the value of the company and had worked for decades were left with absolutely nothing. The vulture funds and the asset strippers walk away with all the money and the workers who built that company are left with nothing. Last December, I raised with the Taoiseach's predecessor, Deputy Michael Martin-----

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