Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

In a similar vein, we have been receiving emails regarding a company called Indeed. Indeed.com uses paid-for job ads on its website to make its money. It has announced redundancies and is allegedly in consultation with its workers. Has the Minister been notified by this company and is it complying with the terms of the Redundancy Payment Act because there is suspicion and it appears to us from the emails we received that there have been breaches of the Act? Both cases need to be put in the context of the profits made by both companies. Indeed.com bounced back from pre-tax losses of €15 million in 2020 to profits of €268 million in 2021. This is an incredible turnaround for the company yet it is giving a miserly redundancy offer to its workers. There seems to be a pattern here about which we and the Taoiseach should be concerned given the attraction of tech companies to this State.

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